LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Scholastic Math Missions

by LeapFrog

Product Features

• Real-world mathematics challenges await you in Spectacle City as you use your skills to save local stores!
• Don't let trouble multiply at the seafood market--select the correct fish to balance the scale.
• Complete mathematics problems and earn money.
• Spend your hard-earned cash playing three exciting games at the arcade.
• Teaches addition, subtraction, multiplication, money and geometry.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00099EBFW
• Item model number: 30447
• Manufacturer recommended age: 6 - 9 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,038 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • #96 in Toys & Games > Learning & Education > Mathematics & Counting
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Save the stores of Spectacle City and develop real-world math skills as you complete orders at a candy store, build a skyscraper and more! Earn reward money by solving math problems, then spend your hard-earned cash on exciting arcade games. Leapster2 players can connect online for extra activities and rewards. And with the LeapFrog® Learning Path, parents can see what their child is learning. Appropriate for ages 4 years to 8 years. Works only with Leapster and Leapster2 learning game systems.

Product Description

Scholastic Math Missions

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

344 of 347 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My son's favorite Leapster cartridge, August 29, 2005

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Marjorie A. Gurwin "MG in Babylon" (Babylon, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Scholastic Math Missions (Toy)

My son, who is now five, received his leapster last November. He has several cartridges, all of which he enjoys. However, the Math Missions game, which we recently purchased online, seems to have captured his attention in a way that the others did not. While all the Leapster titles attempt to make a game out of learning, this cartridge does an exceptional job. For example, instead of requiring him to identify that 4+5=9, it gives him three fish, weighing 4, 5 and 9 pounds each. He needs to figure out how to put them on a scale to make the scale balance. This is a much more interesting "puzzle" and it teaches what an equation really means, at an intuative level. Another activity reminds me of the old game "Mastermind", where he needs to figure out the right combination of candies to put in a box. Through trial-and-error and deductive reasoning, he can figure it out. It's a fun challenge that teaches important logic skills.

The incentive system is also well done. By earning money for doing math tasks, my son can then pay to play "video arcade" games, which are more fun than educational in nature. (The games are simple and just the right level of complexity for 5-7 year olds, along the lines of early video games like pac-man.)He LOVES these games, and is willing to spend hours doing the math puzzles in order to earn the money to play the video games.

This is a great game. I hope Scholastic puts out more cartridges for the Leapster platform.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great learning game..and fun!, May 18, 2008

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Eileen (WV) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Scholastic Math Missions (Toy)

We use this game along with the leapster TV. My daughter started using it at age 5, and she's now 6 and this is still her favorite game to play. When she was 5, she needed a little help with some of the math...I expected that since the game is rated ages 6-9. But, she is now finishing kindergarten and can play the games on her own.

She loves playing the math games and "earning" money that she can then use to play the little arcade games. Truthfully, she doesn't play the arcade games very much, because she loves seeing her "dollar" amount increase and loves the math games. She doesn't seem to want to spend her "money" on the arcade games! I think this is great because it also teaches her about money and saving.

I can't find a single thing wrong with this game...by far one of the most educational leapster games available.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Fun Game for Learning Math, July 12, 2007

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Jenny, C. (MA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Scholastic Math Missions (Toy)

The overall design is excellent. Teaching is nicely mixed with fun. The kids got quite intensive Money training. Excellent Addition/Substraction. The multiplication is on the light weight side.