Description:

AGES: 6 to 12

Math Workshop Deluxe is a fun house containing 8 math based activity rooms. Upon entering you meet your guide Polly who tells you how the program works. She will also guide and help you once you are in any of the activity areas. This is a self directed program that allows you to choose what you want to do.

On the main floor, there are 4 activity areas, 3 of which exercise your skills in visual construction, detecting patterns, and solving geometric puzzles. The fourth area “Window Patterns” allows you to be creative by making colourful geometric designs on your own.

As you mount the stairs, you find 4 areas that exercise and test all your math skills. In one area “Rhythm Shop” you will actually learn how to identify fractions, and you will be tested on your skills. (See middle right) In “Bowling for Numbers” (see bottom right) you have a choice of adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, estimating or equivalency activities.

In “Bowling for Numbers” a bowling pin pops down for each correct answer. When you get 10 pins, Gus The Gorilla goes bowling, and then you play another set. When you have completed 10 sets, you can move up to the next skill level, or switch to another type of math activity within the area.

In “Boiler Room” you are presented with word problems (i.e. questions involving math calculations) challenging your accuracy and speed of response. In “Rhythm Shop” you identify different time codes of a music bar and hear music played to that time signature as a way of understanding fractions. And finally there is “Rockets” an interesting game of deductive logic.

Math Workshop Deluxe has four levels of difficulty (hence the age span from 6–12). You work your way up through the levels. You also can easily customize the program’s difficulty to match exactly the skill levels of your child or class. The program tracks each user’s performance, by specific math activity.

System Requirements:

Windows®

• Windows: 3.1 or 95/98, 33 MHz 486 or faster required, 8 MB RAM, requires 4 MB hard disk space, 2x CD–ROM drive or faster required, SVGA monitor/display card 640x480, 256 colors; thousands of colors supported. This program will not run on Windows XP

• Macintosh: PowerMac required, System 7.1.2 or higher, 12 MB RAM (5 MB free), requires 2.6 MB hard disk space, 2x CD–ROM drive or faster required, monitor – 13 inch or larger color, 256 colors.