SafePC · Calculate and draw
A multiplication
Work out 12 × 3 with the Calculator.
Step by step
- Click the Start button! Look at the bottom of this practice computer: the dark strip there is its taskbar. In the middle of it, click the Start button (four blue squares). The main menu opens just above it. If you see two taskbars, use the one inside this page.
- Click "Calculator". In the menu that opened, click the "Calculator" tile (a square with a small picture and its name under it): the app opens in its own window.
- Calculate 12 × 3. In the Calculator window, click these buttons one after the other: 1, then 2, then the × button (in the right-hand column of buttons), then 3, and finally the blue = button at the bottom right. The result, 36, shows at the top.
- Close this window. You are done with this window, so close it: click the ✕ button at the top right corner of the "Calculator" window (on its title bar, the strip at the top). The window disappears.
These steps are written for SafePC, a pretend Windows-style computer in your web browser. On your own computer, the buttons and menus may look a little different, but the idea is the same.
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