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│ I received Mental Math Games
│ (IBM PC) version 2.0 from
▄ │ Waterford Institute last night.(I
▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄█▄ ▄▄▄ █ │ upgraded from version 1.0) This
█ █ █ █▄█ █ █ █ ▄▄█ █ │ math drill program contains 7
█ █ █ █▄▄ █ █ █▄ █▄█ █ │ game/drills that cover K-12
│ REALLY! First, my two girls 6 and
▄ │ 12 fight over this game and their
▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄█▄ █▄▄ │ response biases my opinion.
█ █ █ ▄▄█ █ █ █ │
█ █ █ █▄█ █▄ █ █ │ µα∞Σ 1 - A rocket is on the left
│ side of the screen and a window
│ on the right side. An equation is
▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ │ placed in the window (nice large
█ █ ▄▄█ █ █ █ █▄█ █▄▄ │ font) and you must provide the
█▄█ █▄█ █ █ █ █▄▄ ▄▄█ │ answer. If you are right a blast
▄▄█ │ of smoke and fire (with sound)
│ come out the back end of the
│ rocket and it starts to rise.
│ Answer right again and rocket
climbs higher and faster. On an │ down flat'. In this game the duck
easy level about 5 right answers │ has an equation on it. You must
in row are needed to complete │ give the correct answer before
blast off. If you give a wrong │ the duck get across the screen
answer, the blast stops and the │ and out of sight. Good background
rocket will begin falling. If it │ music and a 'punk' sound when you
hits the ground again you will │ hit the duck. Levels set the
need to do the level over. If you │ Duck's speed.
blast off the screen, the screen │
changes to a man in a space suit │ µα∞Σ 3 - Maze. You must move
standing on the moon's surface. │ around the screen and collect
(voice from mission control says │ things ie. If I remember, in one
you have blasted off) You get │ maze you are a mouse collecting
about 5 levels which set the │ cheese but staying away from the
amount of gravity. │ mouse traps. You move the mouse
│ by looking in the centre of the
µα∞Σ 2 - Hit the DUCK. Arcade │ screen at 4 different equations,
type game 'where you used to │ one for each direction. If the
shoot at a travelling duck and │ "up" is 9-6=? then pushing a 3
when you hit it, it would flip │ would move the mouse "up" and a
new equation would appear for the │ simple Grade level (adding) it
"up". This has at least three │ was easy to win at fishers. (new
different screens. The level, if │ to version 2)
I remember, set the number of │
things you must steer around. │ µα∞Σ 6 - Tetris. Move falling
│ blocks with numbers, wild cards,
µα∞Σ 4 - Rocky Raccoon. Finish a │ +, -, =, /, and * to make a
page of equations before the time │ correct equation. This I found a
is up and Rocky will walk a few │ little tricky but still pretty
steps. After repeating this many │ easy. (new to version 2)
times you help Rocky on his trek. │
I don't remember if there are │ µα∞Σ 7 - Concentration: your
levels for this game. │ right answers flip over cards
│ which form a picture.
µα∞Σ 5 - Play checkers. You play │
checkers with fish that swim │
around the board instead of │ ε∩≤Φεφ≥ αφπ Γε∞∞Σφ≤≥:
checker peices. If your answer is │
right you get to move. If you are │ 1. You can set the Grade Level
wrong your turn is skipped. On a │ and type of problem before
starting any of the above games. │ the main menu.
There must be several hundred │
combos of equations to choose │ 5. Each child can log in and the
from and some were very │ program keeps track of their
hard.(version 1 used a book to │ score and progress for you. (when
look up what was on each level, │ you complete a Grade level you
version 2 had on screen menus) │ are switched to the next level)
│ As my kids use it more I am
2. Most games are timed. You can │ sure we will find out more about
adjust the timer for each game │ it but it sure looks like fun.
from a config program outside of │ It is VGA only, used about 8.5meg
the main program. (new with │ of hard disk and runs
version 2) │ fine in a 386dx-40 ñ
│
3. This also supports many sound │
cards and midi cards and you can │
turn on or off the music or sound │
or both from the main menu. │
│
4. You can 'esc' from anywhere to │