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This package offers four full-version games for the price of one. Kids will enjoy hours of fun and learning with LEGO My Style Kindergarten, Math Rabbit, Pajama Sam in "No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside", and Crayola 3D Castle Creator. Kids can master the core skills of reading, math, logic, and creativity while having fun. For example, with LEGO My Style Kindergarten, users ages 2 to 6 will encounter special learning buddies who have their own unique style of approaching educational activities, including mathematical, linguistic, artistic, musical, and kinesthetic. Children can learn math by using art or learn music by using numbers. And with Pajama Sam in "No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside," fed up with his fear of the dark, Sam transforms himself into Pajama Sam, the world's youngest superhero, and resolves to confront darkness. With help from King the mine car, Otto the boat, and a host of other characters, Pajama Sam soon finds that things aren't quite what they seem in the incredible Land of Darkness. Kids direct this interactive adventure through a giant tree house, underground river caverns, and even a sunken mine. Teamwork, clever thinking, and some creative problem solving lead the hero, and kids, to a surprising conclusion--maybe darkness isn't as bad as it seems. ... Read more

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• Comparing
• Catagorizing
• Problem Solving
• Thinking Skills
• Following Directions

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• Kids will master ten core subjects with in-depth tutorials, self-paced exercises and fun multimedia lessons
• Understand important theories and the cycle and classifications of life with Biology
• Understand the workings of law and government in U.S. History & Government
• Develop important critical thinking and skills and crucial math theories with Algebra, Geometry and Trigonometry
• Understand maps and terrain when you take Geography

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Middle School Workshop: 6th-8th Grade delivers four learning programs to your child's desktop. Designed for middle school students, this four-CD-ROM collection helps build essential math, science, Spanish, and typing skills. Featuring educational programs from the Princeton Review, Compton's Learning, Success Builder, and Mavis Beacon, kids gain algebra skills, learn about Earth science, build their Spanish vocabulary and grammar skills, and master the keyboard. Users can complete lessons in order or skip ahead, all while working at their own pace.

The Princeton Review disc covers an entire year of algebra in 60 interactive lessons, plus it comes with fun math games! Highlights include equations and variables, functions and graphs, and word problems. Kids get to work with interactive coaches and gain tips. The Earth science course from Compton's Learning teaches practical skills and offers real-world experiments. Kids study everything from geology to water, earthquakes, weather, and the environment. They'll learn basic science skills, how to create science reports, and even how to conduct experiments.

Success Builder's Spanish tutorial offers help for beginners with pronunciation and vocabulary development, while advanced students should find themselves challenged by the conversational portion. Added skill builders include work for improving listening, grammar, and translation abilities. And what could be more handy than keyboarding skills for today's computer-savvy kids? Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 10 whips those fingers into shape! Coursework stresses keyboard proficiency, speed, and accuracy, while eight skill-building games add fun. ... Read more

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It is great!
I am a mom of 1 child and i got this for her and it was great! I would approve this for middle school parents! ... Read more

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Hard-to-learn made easy software guidelines - June 29, 2001
It is unbelievable for me to find out how hard it was to purchase the recent software, Math Express 2.0 I've been waiting for a while now. Until then, I was definitely surprised to informed the certain cause of the product you were selling was out of stock until your nearest future awaits you for the selling arrivals of this aboslute software, so I went to the different online store within the use of home web address memorized: As a result, I was certainly glad to find out still the company was offering to do the non-stop selling of the second version-related Math Express macintosh software for the exact price, ..[charged] for every order. After all, the product I selected didn't arrive until 3 days ago shortly after my last week's online order result was made from where I visiting.

Hopefully, at this point my lesson has turned out I truly wanted to have a good reviewing start of the intermediate algebra concepts until I'm completely finished, it'll be time for me to learn my skill technique of studying Geometry afterwards.

Thank you again, for letting me select this version of Math Express software to make my order in ..store.. ... Read more

Features

• Exercise the animals while exercising your math muscles in over 50 different lessons
• Skills covered include -Adding, subtracting, sorting, and more
• As kids progress they'll pick up SmartPoints, which they can trade in online for prizes
• Also includes a trial version of Virtual Classroom

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This package from Encore Software comes with 4 CDs for the education and entertainment of young children. I purchased this for my 5 year-old daughter. All the games are fairly simple and probably appropriate, with the possible exception of "Grammar Rock," for the indicated age group (i.e. 1st & 2nd grade). HOWEVER, there are definite problems that must be mentioned. The Muppets Thinking Skills is entertaining and does indeed help with said skills, BUT the game is the SAME every time through; there is no way to change the game every time it is played. Every puzzle or question is repeated in exactly the same way, thereby promoting memory skills rather than original thinking....
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