Leapster Software: Math Missions
© 2005 Scholastic Entertainment
Fun and very well designed to help children better conceptualize important early math relationships, this is the kind of title that can get a math educator giddy. That's because the four activities, each set in the store of a mall, help children better understand tricky relationships, in a hands on way. Like previous math Mission titles, children earn money by solving puzzles; dragging fish into a scale to make it balance, tagging moving items that match a shown equation. In Sweet Booth, children use deductive reasoning to use clues to guess a pattern of candies. Prizes are rewarded with dollars that can be spent doing one of four simple but addicting arcade games that resemble Moon Patrol, Super Mario and Centipede. This is the first LeapFrog cartridge designed by a third party (Scholastic Entertainment).
$25, Leapster, Smart Toy
Teaches: math, geometry, sums, addition, comparing quantities