Math Advantage 2010

by Encore

Product Features

• Elementary Advantage 2010 is a complete student resource center that combines lessons, exercises and quizzes with additional learning resources
• Provides an interactive learning experience and the tools students need to reach their full academic potential
• Interactive lessons and exercises that reinforce classroom learning; brain-building games add fun to studying
• Allows your child to learn at his/her own pace, build critical skills, identify problem areas and review lessons as needed
• Includes helpful reference tools plus iPod study materials

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001V9RCF0
• Item model number: 17290
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 25, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,821 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #16 in Software > Education & Reference > Test Preparation

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Advantage provides an interactive learning experience and the tools students need to gain learning confidence and improve their grades. Help your child build a solid academic foundation with Math Advantage, a complete student resource center that combines lessons, exercises and quizzes with additional learning resources to support and motivate your child in reaching his or her full academic potential.

Build a strong math foundation with detailed explanations and creative lessons that make it easy to grasp key concepts. Click to enlarge.

Get a head start in Algebra with an engaging introduction to algebraic symbols, variables and expressions. Click to enlarge.

Develop a firm understanding of algebraic concepts and learn how to apply them in solving complex problems. Click to enlarge.

Master Geometry at your own pace with detailed lessons and practice exercises that reinforce learned skills. Click to enlarge.

Improve your knowledge of trigonometric functions, identities and more through interactive lessons and exercises that teach the fundamentals. Click to enlarge.

Learn how to collect, analyze and present complex data in a clear and concise manner. Click to enlarge.

Develop a clearer understanding of Calculus with the help of simplified explanations and detailed examples. Click to enlarge.

The ADVANTAGE Approach to Effective Learning:

ADVANTAGE uses a unique approach that combines interactive lessons, exercises, and quizzes with additional learning resources to support and motivate students in reaching their full academic potential.

• Engage
  Interactive learning experience engages the student
  
  
• Reinforce
  Standards-driven lesson plan reinforces classroom learning
  
  
• Support
  Study aids & reference tools support the learning experience
  
  
• Motivate
  Brain-building games add fun to studying

Student Benefits

• Learn At Your Own Pace
• Build Critical Skills
• Identify Problem Areas
• Review Lessons As Needed

Student Resources

• Excel Tutor
• iPod study materials

Study Break Extras

• Brain-building games

Core Curriculum

Basic Math
Build a strong math foundation with detailed explanations and creative lessons that make it easy to grasp key concepts.

• Counting Techniques
• Factor Trees
• Fractions & Decimals
• Perimeter & Area
• Systems of Measurement

Pre-Algebra
Get a head start in Algebra with an engaging introduction to algebraic symbols, variables and expressions.

• Mixed Numbers
• Ratios & Proportions
• Scientific Notation
• Order of Operations
• Formulas & Substitution

Algebra I & II
Develop a firm understanding of algebraic concepts and learn how to apply them in solving complex problems.

• Expressions & Equations
• Absolute Values
• Lines, Slopes & Intercepts
• Proportions & Inequalities
• Polynomials & Functions

Geometry
Master Geometry at your own pace with detailed lessons and practice exercises that reinforce learned skills.

• Reasoning & Equality
• Lines & Angles
• Circles & Triangles
• Quadrilaterals
• Transformations

Trigonometry
Improve your knowledge of trigonometric functions, identities and more through interactive lessons and exercises that teach the fundamentals.

• Complex Numbers
• Functions & Equations
• Pythagorean Theorem
• Laws of Sines
• Laws of Cosines

Statistics & Probability
Learn how to collect, analyze and present complex data in a clear and concise manner.

• Mean, Median & Mode
• Standard Deviation
• Sampling Theory
• Correlation & Regression
• Plots & Graphs

Calculus
Develop a clearer understanding of Calculus with the help of simplified explanations and detailed examples.

• Limits & Continuity
• Derivatives
• Sequences & Series
• Common Graphs
• Functions & Equations

PLUS: Brain-Building Games and iPod Study Materials!

Product Description

Advantage provides an interactive learning experience and the tools students need to gain learning confidence and improve their grades. Help your child build a solid academic foundation with Math Advantage, a complete student resource center that combines lessons, exercises and quizzes with additional learning resources to support and motivate your child in reaching his full academic potential.With Math Advantage, your child will develop and test his knowledge in all areas of Math, from Addition and Subtraction to Algebra, Geometry, Statistics and more. Additional study aids such as iPod study materials will help support the learning process while brain-building games make studying fun!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Really Helping, August 6, 2009

By 

Agmaverick "Ag" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Math Advantage 2010 (DVD-ROM)

I brought this software after reading the great reviews for math advantage 2008 and ignoring math advantage 2009 reviews. The reason I need the software is I am a college student about to take Calculus. So far I am unimpressed with Math Advantage 2010 it has small sections with animations that repeat the same examples in the lesson. Each section contains one excerise and it's always the same exercise.

The software I was looking for would identify the problems I have with math and contain multiple exercises along with detailed explanations. This software provides concise information that is clear and understandable but very few excerises that go along with the lesson. Furthermore, the animations are the same examples as in the lesson.

Highlights are the math games, the information is presented in a clear and easily understood way. Furthermore each section is brief. It'll probabley be great just for a quick math refresher.

My idea of Math Advantage 2010 is a quickly put together with no real idea of what a person who is bad in math needs.

However, I am going to give it a few more days before I send it back. I want to at least give it a week.

My recommdention is for 19.99 buy it as a supplement to a good textbook-the information is easily presented but if you really need good math software with lots of examples and exercises. Save your money.

P.S. the calculus section is just the Idiot's Guide to Calculus book.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money at all, horrible program!, August 1, 2009

By 

M. Chen (NY, USA) - See all my reviews
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Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Math Advantage 2010 (DVD-ROM)

I am currently a 16-year-old, about to take Precalculus next year. I bought this program in preparation for my classes. However, I was disappointed. The interface is very crude; it forces your computer into full-screen mode (without an option to change) and the voice takes forever to speak and slows down the program. And when you take a quiz, its always the same 15 questions, but in a different order, so its impossible to get any decent practice.

Plus, when I tried to use the calculus program (even reinstalling windows XP to do it) the program didn't work at all! I've never seen a worse computer program.

This is a terrible program.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Get the 2008 Version!, July 22, 2010

By 

R. L. Hodges (Layton, UT, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Math Advantage 2010 (DVD-ROM)

This review is for the 2008 version of this product because the newer versions are HORRIBLE and should be avoided.

First two thing you need to know:

1. No amount of cutesey flowery multimedia is going to make your kids excited to learn math - we ALL have to choke it down. Math is fun only AFTER you learn it. But As far as any software goes to help you learn math, this is as good as it gets. And it's fantastic and worth every penny.

2. This 2008 version is the best version you can get - avoid the newer releases of this product, they have been cheapened with PDF files of "For Dummies" books that replaced previously included online learning CDs/products. These new versions are basically nothing more than glorified adult-level books on CD that have been graphically wrapped in kiddie graphics.

Years ago, I bought the original 8-CD set of this product (for Win3.x/95) and it was fantastic. It was sold as The Princeton Review math product. I'd still be using them for my kids if I could install them on 64-bit versions of Windows.

The original product I have was all originally made by The Learning Company and sold as The Princeton Review, many of those CDs are still included in this new 2008 version of the product, complete with updated content and formatting.

This 2008 version is also far better in that all is installed from a DVD in better packaging. The content has been updated for modern computers, including Vista (and thus Win7) and will be good for at least another 10-12 years just because of being 64-bit Win7 compatible. Now that I have kids, and the fact that we're now 5 more versions of Windows down the road from Win95, this is the perfect upgrade of basically the same product that I purchased years ago.

The educational material itself is a mixture of standard text reading, voiced narration, exercises, coaching, lessons, quizes, bookmarks, graphic visuals, interacticve multimedia games that act as quizes, etc. Navigation is extremely simplistic and very effective.

Some people (including me) might not like the rather childish menu screens and presentation. It literally looks like it was developed by Nickolodeon, complete with little cartoon characters, "boink"-type sound effects and colorful "TimBurton-esque" crooked TV screens that material is presented in. It's perfect for smaller kids, but junior high school students and even 6th graders will find the appearance onscreen to be quite chidlish. If you also got it for re-learning some math as an adult (like I did), you'll just have to put up with the kiddy screens. The math, however, is just as Newton and Einstein gave it to us, so have no fear - you will be learning the math, and it will hold your hand from the basics of 2+2 all the way up to Newtonian differential calculus, which put men on the moon. This is as close to "Reader Rabbit does Rocket Science" as it's gonna get, if that's what you're looking for for your kids. For adults, just don't let your teenage (or older) kids see you using it - you'll never hear the end of it.

Remember: AVOID the 2009 and 2010 versions of this product - they are absolutely terrible. Get the 2008 version of this product while it is still available. I just bought mine from a 3rd party vendor from Amazon because they are no longer in stock directly on Amazon. Best 8 bucks I've ever spent.

5 stars for the product, but dropping to 4 stars because of the chidish menus and appearance throughout that are bafflingly aimed at the toddler age group instead of the "teen plus" age group this level of content is clearly intended for.