Math Missions: The Race to Spectacle City Arcade Grades K-2 [OLD VERSION]

by Scholastic

Product Features

• Story-based math games for grades K-2
• Explore the city using real-life math skills
• Do fun activities to earn money to play arcade games
• Colorful graphics and fun sounds
• For one player

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009VRFR
• Item model number: 356532
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 11, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,587 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #23 in Software > Children's Software > Math
  • #47 in Software > Children's Software > Games
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Use real-world math skills to earn money for arcade games! Catch the bus, subway, or ferry to travel the city and tackle fun math challenges in the stores of Spectacle City. Build addition, subtraction, fractions, and problem solving skills while constructing a skyscraper, sorting toys at the toy store, counting types of candy at the outdoor market, and more. Earn money for each correct answer--then use it to play exciting games in the arcade!

Features:

• 12 math activities with three levels of play
• Three action-packed arcade games
• Thousands of math challenges and word problems
• Automatically adjusts according to your child’s progress
• Automated personal education tutor
• Strategies and hints help to solve problems
• Progress report
• Three complete grades of math

Product Description

Catch the bus, subway, or ferry to travel the city and tackle fun math challenges in the stores of Spectacle City. Build addition, subtraction, geometry, and problem solving skills while constructing a skyscraper, sorting toys at the toy store, counting types of candy at the outdoor market, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing software., November 1, 2003

By 

pandabear "pandabear35" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Math Missions: The Race to Spectacle City Arcade Grades K-2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Excellent, challenging, fun software for kids! Get this for your first or second grader, and only if your kindergarten child is pretty advanced in math. Offers lots of practice and contains bright and fun graphics that draw kids in. The "mission" also helps keep them playing.

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging and makes practical math fun., November 8, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Math Missions: The Race to Spectacle City Arcade Grades K-2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

My four year old daughter loves this game and would play it every day for hours if I let her. She has really developed some advanced skills just by having a good time. Some of the games require more support from me than others, but overall she is able to do more and more by herself and is definitely learning. I usually type in a new name each time we play so she has to start over with all the math games before she can use the arcade. She loves it so that's no problem. One extra is that there are girl characters on the program, which I appreciate for my daughter.

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's Just "Okay", February 28, 2005

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yogagirl (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Math Missions: The Race to Spectacle City Arcade Grades K-2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

There are not many good options in software for children, so that this at least rates as okay is something. It is educational for sure and definitely teaches math and grouping of sets for faster counting, money values, etc. But it could be more appealing for a 5-year old boy.

Other options to consider are the clue-finding, problem solving computer games of Myst (my son loves working on these with mom and dad); and the Leapster computer with K-1 cartridge. The Leapster is similar in that you must go around and complete educational tasks and earn tokens for doing the fun stuff. And the fun stuff is fun and rewarding. Yet the fun reward stuff in Math Missions is only 3 arcade style games that are not that special or interesting. Also, they are timed and go so fast that a 5-year old who isn't used to video games has a lot of difficulty. My son enjoys the math educational portion way more than the fun stuff so that the reward is not very enticing.