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Now featuring addition, subtraction, and counting to 30, the award-winning Millie's Math House has been enhanced to offer even more learning. In seven activities, children explore numbers, shapes, sizes, patterns, addition, and subtraction as they build mouse houses, create wacky bugs, count animated critters, make jellybean cookies, and answer math challenges posed by Dorothy the duck. Use the Spanish language version for ESL, bilingual, and Spanish language instruction. ... Read more

Features

• As they travel through the space circus & see event from all over the galaxy, they'll learn all sorts of vital math skills
• Learn about number patterns, fractions, logic, problem solving and more
• Over 50 math skills are exercised
• As kids learn they earn SmartPoints, which they can trade in online for prizes
• Also includes trial version of Virtual Classroom

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• Join Professor Doodles in his Cartoon Classroom and Castle of Coordinates to learn Algebra the fun way
• Explore seven fully animated rooms while practicing coordinate graphing
• Professor Doodles explains in detail the rules for each algebraic category
• Easy to understand explanations encourage further study and learning
• Features 9 Algebraic Categories, comprehensive examples and hundreds of practice problems

Product Description

Teaches essential skills for school. ... Read more

Features

• 20 engaging activities and games; collect items to help Little Bill make a big surprise
• Develop early math and thinking skills while launching a submarine, traveling to outer space, and more
• 4 adventures--a different surprise for each season
• 3 levels of play automatically adjust to your child's progress
• Starring popular characters and voices from the hit TV show, including Phylicia Rashad

Features

• Travel back to Atlantis, Greece, Egypt, and the Aztecs
• Intelligent tracking system automatically responds to child's progress
• Kids move ahead and get extra practice when needed
• All lessons and problems are based on core curriculum topics
• Over 250 topics; covers 4 grade levels; 6,000+ help pop-ups

Amazon.com Review

The phrase "teaches early math skills" can translate into "steer clear" for a numbers hater. But as Blue, the dog, accompanies your youngster through this backyard carnival, visiting snack booths, pattern parades, and souvenir stands, she (and her inimitable squeak) turns the dread phrase into a series of enjoyable activities.

The seven activities in Blue's 123 Time are all designed to encourage counting, pattern recognition, and deduction. Real-world applications abound here: kids can put objects on a scale and weigh them in Bell's Souvenir Stand; save, spend, and count money in the Prize Tent; and develop card-sharking capabilities playing Baby Bear's Card Game. In fact, since successful completion of each activity pays off in Blue Dollars to spend in the Prize Tent, parents who frown on gambling may raise an eyebrow at the little felt bear dealing a deck. But there's nothing like a good game of cards for fostering pattern recognition and counting skills!

Fear not, Blue won't lead your preschooler down a path of vice. Everyone here is benign, encouraging, and comfortably two-dimensional, just like the television show. The games subtly increase in difficulty as they're played, easing kids into fairly complex concepts like sets, subsets, and estimation. The activities teach on an almost subliminal level, with enough counting out loud and positive reinforcement to make numbers friendly to any child. --Anne Erickson ... Read more

Reviews (12)

We Love you Blue!
Our 3 year old son loves this game! He has been able to play it all by himself with just a little help the first couple of times. He enjoys figuring new things out each time he plays and he is progressing rapidly in his abilities to figure the computer and programs out all by himself. This a very well-developed game.

I have found a wonderful teaching tool in the game that I never expected. My little son is learning to take turns talking! Since he cannot do anything on the game while the characters talk, he is learning to really listen to what they say. It is delightful! He has started really listening to what Mommy says, instead of dashing off to do something else. He is even learning to show more patience to his baby sister! I had never thought that a computer game would be teaching manners. Kudos to the programmers!

My kids like it
My 3 year old daughter, who seems to literally have fear of a computer mouse, would actually put her hand on the mouse to play this game. I think Blue was her motivation! There are good thinking games that get progressively challenging. It was fun to play them with her and ask her questions. What surprised me most was that my 8 year old daughter keeps asking me if she can play it!

Excellent and Educational
This is a fun cd with several games all aimed at teaching a child math skills. There are sorting games where a child has to sort out items into two sets of like items. There are games that encourage number, color or shape recognition. There are games that encourage measurement (in that something is bigger or smaller than something else) and weighing. As children play games the games get progressively harder. Also, as children play they earn blue dollars that they can later spend.

By little four year old boy still enjoys playing with this game. We bought it when he was three.

This is a fun computer game. It is easy to use and required very little input or direction from me as my son learned how to play the games. It grows with the childs skill level. This computer game makes math fun.

Enjoy.

Loved by my 4-year old
My wife and I purchased a computer for my (then) 3-year old's Christmas present. We also purchased some educational software for him to use, and Blue's Clues 123 Time Activities was one of the titles selected.

The software installed easily on his Windows XP-based HP computer. He was up and playing in "no time flat."

Game play is intuitive, and his favorite game is a Crazy -8s-based card game that he plays against one of Blue's Clues charming characters, a little bear. All of the games progress in difficulty depending on the child's level of success.

After winning or successfully completing a task, the player is given a certain amount of "Blue Dollars," which can be used to buy items at the prize tent. These items are accumulated and are put together (by the computer, not by the child) to form a neat object like a toy boat or toy car.

My now 4-year old still enjoys the game, and has experienced a limited amount of frustration. His mom helps to guide him often, and he also helps to guide me through some of the activities!

Great Fun
This is great software for kids. My two year old plays it with me and it's one of his favorites. His favorite characters from the show all have fun activities in the game. I love it because it doesn't get boring for me. ... Read more

Features

• Kids must retrieve the stolen Mega-Bolt by completing games and distributing prizes
• 8 interactive activities and puzzles
• Features the popular characters from the award-winning television series
• Teaches planning, spatial reasoning, deductive reasoning, and other problem-solving techniques
• For kids ages 8-11

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Cyberchase Carnival Chaos
As an avid fan of the show, I HAD to have this game, and now that I have it, I'm not sure what I think of it. It's kind of hard (I can only do two games on it), but, on the other hand, it's a lot of fun to see the charaters from my favorite show on here. (Especially Buzz and Delete- I really like them.) So, I think a die-hard fan should look into it, but be prepared: it's not as easy as it looks. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

StudyWorks! is designed for all math students--from those who need help with basic concepts and skills to those who want to explore the most advanced applications and exercises. It's the one math package you'll never outgrow. Want to go further? Then explore the StudyWorks! Resource Center. The StudyWorks! Resource Center is the place to go for in-depth background information, help, or to easily connect to the wider world of math and science on the World Wide Web.

From the Resource Center, you can take an animated quick tour to get you started. Or immediately access multimedia tutorials and other forms of online help when you need them. Enter a library full of facts and formulas. The StudyWorks! Library puts a wealth of mathematical knowledge at your fingertips. It has thousands of equations you can drag and drop into your own work as well as interactive reference tables, thorough explanations of concepts, worked-out examples, illustrations, graphs, and animations that will strengthen both your problem-solving skills and your basic understanding.

Reach out using the World Wide Web. StudyWorks! lets you access continuously updated reference material through the Web. You can link to other math-related sites. You can even visit our exclusive Collaboratory to participate in virtual study groups and discussion forums--and pick up math tips from the experts.

Do your best on the Scholastic Assessment Test by using tips and strategies from The Princeton Review's bestselling math series. You get all the essential test prep material plus sample math questions and strategies for solving them.

Works with graphing calculators too! Import data from Texas Instruments, Casio, or Hewlett-Packard graphing calculators for analysis and integration with text and graphs in StudyWorks! Mathematics.

StudyWorks! Mathematics covers the full range of math curriculum including algebra, geometry, precalculus, trigonometry, calculus, and statistics. Some of the topics include linear functions, factoring, quadratic equations, graphing, polynomials, inequalities, systems of equations, conic sections, areas and volumes, polar coordinates, logs and exponential functions, sequences and series, circular functions, trigonometric identities, parametric curves, vectors, matrices, probability, data analysis, complex numbers, limits, derivatives, and integrals. ... Read more

Reviews (3)

As hard to understand as the math itself
As my title states this program is "as hard to understand as the math itself". Too much reading is involved. If I wanted to read and not understand I would read the book again. Needs more graphics and animations. Not a very good math supplement.

This software STINKS!
Good luck to anyone trying to figure out how to use this software. I guarantee that none of your kids can figure it out on their own. The feature set is rich but even someone that is very technical will have difficulty figuring out how to use it. I read the manual thoroughly and the descriptions of how to do a lot of things is simply missing. I couldn't even get through the first lesson!

Where's the Beef?
Too much fluff and not enough meat for my needs. Too much reading and not enough interactive sitations dealing with the concepts. Not enough examples and step by step directions to solving problems would have helped. It seems like they put all of their resources into the introduction clip and blew off the math! Not impressed! You'd be better off just DOING YOUR HOMEWORK! Not good for supplimental instruction. ... Read more

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Not what I thought, Buy the video instead
This was a very dissapointing purchase. I think maybe the targeted age should be increased to 8-10 years old. It is mostly multiplication and geometry. And there is an awful board game, where it takes away the very rewards that you won.(I understand that subtraction is part of math, but I think they could have did it another way without it seeming like a punishment.) It just was not fun for my child, everything seemed too much like work.The only reason I gave it two stars instead of one is because of the ability to acess the school house rock music videos and the pool game was okay too. But just okay.

Math Rock really rocks!
This is a fun math game based on the popular show Schoolhouse Rock - it is a great way to get kids to practice math skills as they navigate "Funky Numberland." Although the sound may be annoying at times, it is a fun game for kids (grades 1-5). The software is easy to navigate and has tons of cool graphics/animations. It has different levels for kids to play and makes them collect coins for later use or as they play the "Road to Fame" game. It has a great teacher or parent support documents (allowing them to check and print out a child's or a class' progress, or simply track what has been done) and help is easy to find (by clicking the big question mark). It's a useful tool for encouraging a child to like math. ... Read more

Features

• Children develop visual perception as well an ability to compare and contrast objects
• Reflective thinking and independent learning
• All feedback is encouraging and nonjudgmental, reducing children's frustration levels
• Holds children's attention and develops concentration skills
• Various teaching methods provide strategies to develop mathematically powerful children

Features

• Reader Rabbit Personalized Reading builds phonics, vocabulary and word comprehension skills
• Reader Rabbit Personalized Math helps arithmetic, pattern recognition, problem solving and simple equations
• Reader Rabbit Thinking Adventures lets kids throw a surprise party and helps them build problem solving, pattern recognition, organizational skills

Amazon.com Product Description

What has three eyes, one antenna, and nine yellow spots? Only you know for sure. Learn all you can about numbers and quantities from 1 to 10 as you build hundreds of bright, grinning bugs. Place rolling eyes, wagging tails, silly spots, and rows of feet. Print and color your works of art for even more fun.This software spotlights important early learning skills. Children see numerals, hear them spoken, and see relative quantity of objects. Spark their creativity and let them visualize how parts relate to a whole. Have them create a unique "work of art." They will hear singular and plural forms of nouns, such as one antenna, two antennae, and experiment with numbers. (Ages 3-5) ... Read more

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Good practice of basic number concepts..
This is a pretty neat game. I bought it for one of my students that is having difficulty counting. It really does not have the student count. Instead, it tells them to place seven tails on the bug or eight eyes... Some children can count but cannot relate the counting to a concept. This game gives them the opportunity to grasp the concept! It is a simple but effective product. ... Read more