Format: Box
Age: 8 – 11
Platform: WIN/MAC
Build real-world mathskills while earning money to run your own arcade
Product Information
Save Spectacle City by disrupting Randall Underling’s plan to drive allthestores out of business and take over the city in Math Missions: TheAmazing Arcade Adventure. The citizensare countingon you to solve real-world math challenges in the uniquely entertainingstoresand make them successful again. For your help, you’ll earn money toopen yourown arcade, where you’ll choose a name, pick arcade games to play, setprices,and more! Play 15 math activities, 10 different math missions, andsolve thousand of math challenges and word problems as you try to helpthe citizens of Spectacle City.
Product Features
- 15 math activities
- 10 math missions
- Arcade with seven games to play
- Thousands of math challenges and word problems
- Program automatically adjusts to student’s progress
- Automated Personal Education Tutor provides help,instructions, maps, and more
- Strategies and hints help students solve problems
- Progress Report follows each student’s development
Activities Included
- Problem Solving – Go on exciting MathMissions! Travel the city collecting objects andsolving math challenges in order to disrupt Randall Underling’s plan.
- Graphing and Data Analysis – Use yourgraphingskills to keep the electronic store’s shelves stocked.Can you find the software product with the fewest units in stock?
- Measurement – Lend a hand at the outdoormarket byusing the scale to fill orders for freshseafood.
- Counting Money – Deposit the exactchange to takethe bus to another area of Spectacle City!
- Decimals, Estimation and Unit Conversions– Find away to purchase the super-sized products the customer is requestingwhilesticking to the budget!
- Combinations and Logic – Create teamuniforms at thesports store by selecting the correct combinationsof shirts, shorts, shoes, and hats.
- Geometry – Help finish Spectacle City’stallestbuilding by placing the pieces of glass tocomplete the pattern.
- Money Management – Run your ownarcade!Choose a name and theme, pick from sevenaction-packed games, set-up a karaoke machine, sell refreshments,advertise, andmore.
- Multiplication and Division – Help makesmoothies bydividing the recipe! Mix the exact amount of juice,puree, and powder for a tasty treat.
Skills Learned
- Multiplication
- Division
- Estimation
- Fractions and Ratios
- Decimals
- Logic and Reasoning
- Problem Solving
- Equalities and Inequalities
- Classifying and Sorting
- Prediction
- Geometry
- Money Management
- Measurement
- Time
- Temperature
- Unit Conversions
- Graphing and Data Analysis
- Navigation and Direction
- Math Terms
- Combinations
Windows Requirements
- Windows XP, 2000, Me, 98, 95
- Pentium III 266MHz processor or faster
- 64MB of RAM or more
- 175MB of available hard disk space
- 16-bit color
- 8X CD-ROM drive
- Windows compatible sound card
Macintosh Requirements
- MacOS X 8.6 to 9.x
- iMac 233MHz or faster processor
- 64MB of RAM or more
- 175MB of available hard disk space
- 16-bit color
- 24X CD-ROM drive
