Educator's Choice Math & Science Excelerator Grades 3-6 plus bonus World Book Encyclopedia CD

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000A1EEX
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 1, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #11,761 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Teachers agree: learning is easy when you're having fun. That's the spark behind Math & Science Excelerator, the 4-disc set of premium software titles combining amusement and education in one motivationally interactive package. Stuffed with more than 130 individual lessons and over 100 games and activities, this educational CD-ROM suite for pre-teens delivers endless hours of exciting learning adventure, ensuring the acquisition and retention of intermediate, real-world meteorology, astronomy, and mathematics skills. Whether soaring through, and identifying, the clouds with our fearless feathered friend, Mango, or calculating a deep discount while Bargain Shopping, curious youngsters will grow with confidence as they immerse themselves in these challenging activities that adjust to a child’s rising proficiency level.

GeoSafari Knowledge Pad Math: Multiplication & Division: Crazy Kites and Silly Snakes! Doggone Fun and Monster Math! Those are just four of the 56 interactive skill-building games and activities packed into the GeoSafari Knowledge Pad Math: Multiplication & Division CD-ROM. Younger hands and minds will be captivated and delighted as they master these core mathematics operations while playing the colorful array of gently-encouraging drag-and-drop learning games overflowing with photos, illustrations, lights, and sounds. Whether learning to calculate averages by Pedal Power, or solving division word problems at the Dino Diner, kids will embark on a fun-filled learning expedition with GeoSafari Knowledge Pad Math: Multiplication & Division.

Features:

• 56 activities & games at 7 skill levels
• Multiplying and Dividing by 0 through 9
• Identifying Products, Dividends, and Remainders
• Reading Bar Graphs
• Plotting Coordinates
• Calculating Averages and Dividing Money
• Estimating and Rounding Off to the Nearest Thousand
• Spatial Relationships

GeoSafari Knowledge Pad Math: Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages: The educational expedition continues with the 64 real-world lessons filling the GeoSafari Knowledge Pad Math: Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages CD-ROM. Continuing the action-packed, engagingly interactive curriculum introduced in the previous disc, this lesson plan ramps up the practical skill level while maintaining the drag-and-drop facility of fun-filled, sights-and-sounds learning. From symmetrical shapes and congruency, to determining perimeters and elapsed time, GeoSafari Knowledge Pad Math: Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages provides another smart chapter in mathematics tutoring.

Features:

• 64 Activities & Games at 8 Skill Levels
• Adding & Subtracting Fractions w/Like & Unlike Denominators
• Identifying & Changing Fractions to Decimals & Percentages
• Using Line, Circle, & Bar Graphs
• Determining Sale Prices and Discounts
• Rounding Decimals
• Interpreting Mixed Numbers & Improper Fractions
• Spatial Relationships

Mango Plumo's Space Adventure: Twinkle, twinkle little star… It seems that wicked wizard Hocus Pocus is up to his evil tricks once again in Mango Plumo's Space Adventure, this time kidnapping constellations from the sky, and extinguishing the Sun's fire from his hidden lair somewhere in the Solar System. It's up to you to blast off in your custom-built rocketship, journeying through the planets, galaxies, asteroids, and comets to gather the Cosmic Eggs and on-screen tools to free the stars and power up the Sun. With cheery encouragement from your chirping chum Mango, and astronomy lessons and games from Professor Funnybone, your full-color 3-D adventure is out of this world!

Features:

• Explanations Menu Teaches 7 Astronomy Topics
• 6 Educational Astronomy Games
• 20+ Destinations in 3-D and Vivid Color
• Customized Adventure Log Records Clues and Objects Collected, and Tells the Story of Your Adventure with Mango

Mango Plumo's Weather Adventure: It's an ill wind blowing through the land, when evil sorcerer Hocus Pocus mobilizes the breezes, the clouds, and the rain to capture the family of our feathered and fearless hero, Mango. And in Mango Plumo's Weather Adventure, kids are invited to explore meteorological phenomena as they soar up, up, and away with the help of a brave little red-winged bird and his mentor, the gracious Professor Funnybone. You're the pilot, as you assemble your flying machine--traveling through more than 20 animated environments rendered in lush and vivid, full-color 3-D - clicking on the secret keys needed to rescue Mango's family from the castle. Log your flight, radio for help, and click on a cloud icon to access your choice of games---all while learning about the weather courtesy of the Professor's Explanations and Experiments menus.

Features:

• 7 Animated Segments Demonstrating Weather Phenomena
• 10 Educational Games & Activities at 3 Skill Levels
• 20+ Destinations in 3-D and Vivid Color
• 11 Printable Activity Sheets
• Printable Souvenir Storybooks of Your Travels

With over eight decades of experience and a global reputation for unsurpassed excellence, World Book is firmly established as the premier general reference source. Now the world's favorite encyclopedia continues its legacy with World Book 2003 Deluxe Edition. As our world changes, World Book changes with it, while remaining true to its goal of providing students, parents, teachers, and librarians with the most useful, up-to-date information. Regarded as the #1 most-trusted name in reliability and accuracy, World Book continues to provide comprehensive, factual detail in an easy-to-access format. With more than 85 years of specialized experience in the fields of education and communication, World Book employs the expertise of over 3,700 scholars, authenticators, and reviewers to create its World Book 2003 Deluxe Edition - newest in the tradition of this multi-award-winning family reference source.

Of all the subjects World book knows, we understand students best. When research must be done, nothing is more frustrating than searching through useless information. Rather than crowding our encyclopedia with thousands of unnecessary articules, World Book has cut through the clutter to provide more than 22,300 of the most concise, timely, informative pieces any student could need. In addition, understanding the necessity to have current information, we offer FREE online encyclopedia updates so you will always have the latest resources*. Presented in an extremely user-friendly format, World Book 2003 Deluxe Edition supplies the most effective, interactive multimedia materials and tools to access a wealth of knowledge-Guaranteed!

Features

• Easy to use - 22,300+ Articles
• 1,400+ Maps
• 117 Videos and 781 Audio Clips
• 129 Breathtaking Panoramas
• Fully Interactive World Book Dictionary/More than 1,500 Reading Lists
• More than 13,900 Online Articles from World Book Annuals
• Online Encyclopedia Updates!
• More than 9,600 Illustrations and 42 Animations
• More than 1,850 Tables and 323 Time Lines
• More than 30,000 Measurements
• 5 Homework Wizards

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No help from tech, Old encyclopedia, Dissappointed!, July 23, 2004

By	Karen B. "Karen B." (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This seems like a pretty good math game for my son. So far I've only used the Math, Multiplication and Division. There seems to be no possible way to see how he's been doing on the game though. I e-mailed the tech (and after a run around of web sites I was told to go to) and he e-mailed me back a note that just said, "I don't believe that!". That's the extent of the help I got, thanks very much, he never e-mailed me back when I asked him what it was, exactly, that he couldn't believe and asked how to get into the parent part of the game (again).
The encyclopedia, which was free, was last years cd and isn't compatable with my computer (mac) so I tried to sell it on e-bay (for 99 cents) with no takers. Worthless.
Needless to say I'll never buy from Topics again as I have to know how my children are doing on the educational games I give them, otherwise it's worth nothing to me or them at all. Luckily there are a lot of other educational software manufacturers out there!