Customer Reviews

Middle School Success 2005

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I bought this program to help my 6th grader. The cover brags about having 11 CDs covering 19 topics. My first problem is, where is the math!? The first CD contains 3 games that deal with probability and engineering. The written explainations of the problems look they they belong on the board of a college engineering class. I searched through all the other CDs and there is no other math! What a let down.

Some of the disk have programs on them that look like they were written in 1980, and geared for 6-7 year olds. At least 3 of the disk will not run on my brand new computer at present, because I have media player 10 and not an older version.

Save your money on this one, and buy indivdual programs for the subjects you want.

I thought I'd try out this software because I had seen it often in the computer store and wanted to assist my 8th grader with basic middle school work over the summer break. The nicely laid out subjects shown on the box (such as Pre-Algebra, Algebra I and Algebra II) had no corrolation to the titles included in the packet. Some of the disks seem geared toward 3rd graders and insult the intellect of the middle school student. Others are much more advanced (aka the Engineering (or "Math" cd) Funny the box doesn't mention anything about learning Engineering?)

The graphics quality on many of the disks are very poor and do seem like they were created for much older computers. There are much more challenging and informative websites that are out there right now. All in all, this seemed like some cd's were just thrown together for the purpose of this.

Don't bother buying - especially for Math. Pre-Algebra, Algebra I & II and Geometry are non-existent on the CD's except as a page (no links) on the engineering cd. The rest of the cd is fun for about 10 minutes with very little learning value. Typing Tutor is okay, but boring.

Tried Tech Support as listed on CD and the site could not be found. No instructions within box, had to install each cd to determine scope of lessons that were contained.