Customer Reviews

Math Advantage 2002

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I Tutor at a boys school and have used most of Encore's Products.

Math is taught interactively so nothing but a complex program could do it... and they (there's 2 or 3) cost thousands and are for schools.

Where can you go?.... If you pretty much know what you are doing and need to drill there is value in the MOST RECENT edition of THE PRINCETON REVIEW's "MATH LIBRARY"

To get value out of it, however you need to religiously use the "teach step-by step" mode which is activated ny a button at the bottom of the problem... Then Princeton walks you through each step in the problem.

The present product,by Encore is nothing but a textbook screened on a PC... if you get a problem wrong they don't even tell you why.

Try Princeton or Boxer Math's new untried product.

Also CAUTION... Comptons Math are the same as Encore... (maybe that's where the name came from... "encore"?

I purchased this along with High School Advantage 2002 and I think its great. I learned a lot of other math subjects I didn't learn in school and my teacher noticed how I participated more in class. Math Advantage covers more then what I learn at school and I think its an advantage for me. Great price especially when it comes with 9 CD's. Can't beat this anywhere. I tried other softwares and wasn't as good because of their teaching structure. 2 thumbs up for Math Advantage.

I couldn't find where it says edit review but I would like to state that at the time of this writting it says there are two out of four who found my last review helpful. I will add more comments after spending more time with the software but I felt I had to say at least a few things. First, one person stated that you cannot find out why you answered a question incorrectly. I can't believe he said that. You click on solution, that's how. Another person said that you need something else to be complete in math. Well, you have to use the random problem generator and quizzes and examinations if you want more practice (which are included in the software).

I also wanted to note that the software is very straight forward. You don't need to click a lot to find out just how to get started. I only glanced at the ScienceDeluxe software from Studyworks and found it took a while just to see what I wanted. And then the background was white which I don't like. And there was no voice.

I am a sophmore college student who bought this software thinking it would give me a little help with home study. As soon as I started the program I couldn't find certain topics that were in my algebra book. The topics the software had were only summaries. This software should claim "along with pre-algebra, there is a brief introduction to algebra, pre-cal, calculus and trig." You would only know it was a short intro if you were or had already taken these classes. Otherwise you wouldn't know what you missing.
Don't be fooled. Know going into this you will not get much out of it.

I'm running Windows XP with 1GB of RAM. When I try to run the product I get an error message that says, ""This program requires at least 3MB of free virtual memory to run." I can forgive mistakes made by software companies; however, I expect good support and fixes available ASAP. This is not the case. Companies that don't buck up on support or fix their bugs don't deserver your hard-earned dollars. Buy another math product from another company.

I love the graphics,animations, video, charts and the glossary complete with the symbols and formulas is very helpful. I saw only one problem and that is that the practice problems are too long and time consuming. A person who is made of less steel might drop out before they even get to Algebra. I am learning the concepts and am able to do most of the problems correctly but this is only because I use another math software program to compliment this one. If you can get math advantage at a good price by all means buy it.

Do you believe it? I got a good grade on math. It is easy to use and it is easy to understand. Also I can pre-studing by myself at home.

Yes, I saw this product and the frist thing it came to my head was that might help a little cause sound has a good help for learnig math, I bet this is a great tool for someone looking to better its math skills, maybe to be prepared for a job task, or some student like me having a hard time to catch up in math at college, or someone wishing to exercice the brain a little. I have had good experience about learning from a CD rather than a book, it posible because its easier, I would never think this could be the ugly duck!! I just see a very helpfull tool when I see this software, I already have a while using it and I its worth the money.
Ohh!! it will always be helpfull to have some sheet of paper and a pencil, to do some practice and to solve the math problems on the way.
It might help you too.

The only thing I find really peculiar about the program is that the so-called random problem generator is something that simply links you to their website so you can do more exercises. I'm not fortunate enough to have seen the other math software packages but I am STUNNED at what I've seen so far. True, at this moment I've only gone up to chapter three but I find the software amazing and addictive. I love the mostly black background because it doesn't tire out the eyes like a white background does. I like the voice in the background because I'm sometimes too lazy to read or I have a hard time concentrating. You can even click on repeat to hear the explanation again. AND you can click on show example to see how the operations are done. The bottom line to me is whether YOU will want to use it or not. I guess it's like a movie or a book. People have different tastes. So far I haven't thrown it out. Had I put it aside after looking at it, I would not even rate this.

you will need other information to be complete on math.