Learn Math

by Dreamcatcher

Product Features

• Coordinated with a syllabus of grades 1-4
• Improves achievements through exercises
• Item is available in three languages such as English, Spanish and French. Diversified exercises
• Small quizzes enhance the lessons learned
• A selection of 10 different topics provides a well-rounded learning experience

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001IK577C
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches ; 2.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 9, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,299 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Practicing your skills and honing your knowledge of facts can be fun with Learn Math for Nintendo DS. From DreamCatcher Interactive, this collection of math games can by synced with syllabuses for grades one through four, making it easy to ensure problems are just hard enough to keep students both interested and motivated.

Collect points for each fact you know. View larger.

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Cool, Castle Graphics Keep Exercises Fun
At the outset, players are welcomed to the castle and asked to enter their name and grade level. This information is stored, so it's easy for multiple players to set up characters on the same DS unit, making it a great choice for families on the go or students who want to compare results with their friends on the bus.

Once they're ready to play, kids will start working through lessons as little green vampires, and they'll have the opportunity to progress through 10 different topics, learning new concepts, practicing them, and repeating lessons to ensure that they stick. They'll also be tasked with mastering brief quizzes that provide an incentive for practicing skills until they are perfect.

Even Vampires Need Math for Everyday Tasks
Whether it's arranging geometric blocks into Tangram animals, figuring out how far the monsters drove on their European road trip, solving mazes, or doing basic addition and subtraction to figure out the cost of items in a store, this game ties learning abstract concepts to concrete examples for better overall understand--and extra fun.

More advanced students will even get a chance to earn stars and other rewards by racking up right answers to division and multiplication problems, just like they do in real classrooms.

Product Description

Numbers and calculations can be fun! Take your lessons “to go” on your Nintendo DS with Learn Math. Progress through 10 different topics to learn, practice, and repeat lessons based on a syllabus for grades 1-4. Become a math wizard in no time!

Customer Reviews

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52 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Has some fatal flaws, February 7, 2010

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Maria Whitehead "tinkgumby" (Fort Worth, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Learn Math (Video Game)

After reading some great reviews of this game, I had high hopes of being able to use it with my boys in 2nd and 3rd grade to help reinforce their math skills. Neither of them seemed enthusiastic about it, so I sat down myself to give it a try.

I went to the 3rd grade multiplication section, and immediately had issues with it. It shows you a grouping of objects (such as five groups of four playing cards), and has a space to enter both the addition answer (4+4+4+4+4=20) as well as the multiplication - which was where I first found problems. I entered "4x5=20." The vampire shook his head no. What? Has it really been that long since I did multiplication? I tried it again - "4x5=20." Still no. So I switched it up - "5x4=20." Oh, NOW the vampire said I had it right. Why on earth would I not want to reinforce the idea that 4x5 is going to be the same as 5x4?

Next I went to the time section, and again got the vampire shaking his head over what was a correct answer - I just somehow didn't enter it in the order he wanted it! I'm sorry, but if it's confusing and frustrating to me, I'm not going to inflict it on my kids! I'd return it if I could.

75 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A great concept but not so well executed, April 15, 2009

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Jigyasu (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Learn Math (Video Game)

I bought this game after successfully convincing my daughter to play "Personal Trainer: Math". Compared to the later, "Learn Math" is very colorful and school-friendly. Unfortunately the game has somewhat poor code execution. The result: an unresponsive game which gives little feed back. Most buttons have to be clicked in a very small area and the place to click seems randomly distributed. It would have been nicer if the pieces were to be dragged in place than clicked. If you answer a question wrong the mascot only shakes his head but does not offer a feedback. Toggling around the fill-in spaces is horrible and surprisingly it does not take any inputs from cursor buttons of console. Nevertheless, the game must be praised for fairly high standard of problems. However I have modified my previous review because the game has managed to keep my child motivated and she has not been put off by the quirks of the game. She enjoys playing it though our favorite remains "Personal Trainer: Math". I wished the developers could fix the technical aspects of this game.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lack of feedback and ignorance of correct answers make this game a very frustrating experience, April 16, 2010

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Frank (Melbourne, VIC, AUS) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Learn Math (Video Game)

I bought this game for my 6yr old son. Given the choices of problems available, I'd say the game is a great fit. However, the lack of feedback from the game doesn't allow a kid to learn from its mistakes. For example, the game asks the child to calculate the results of 10 additions (one number remains the same and has to be added to 10 different numbers - 3+1 =4, 3+5= 8,...). So, when the kid does all the calculations correct, the game acknowledges that. However, if one or multiple answers were incorrect, the game just says that this was wrong. It doesn't tell which calculations were incorrect or what the correct answers would have been. Similarly, the game only acknowledges a correct answer if it has been entered in a certain way. As another reviewer pointed out here, you have to enter a multiplication in the right order - without the game telling you what the right order is. So, the game accepts 5x4=20 as correct, but claims that 4x5=20 is incorrect. The same issue appears in puzzle games. If you have to create a shape out of smaller shapes, the game seems to expect that you come up with one very specific solution - even though there are several possible solutions to the problem.
Needless to say, the game was "played" a few times and never touched again.