What makes this program so incredibly popular?! I wanted to find out, so I installed it on my computer and let my kids try it out. I could hear Ammon (then 7 yrs.) at the computer making racing car sounds with his mouth and getting quite excited. Why? Because he was beating his own previous scores at “multiplying by 9’s”! Well, I was instantly sold! I haven’t seen anything generate so much enthusiasm for mastering basic math!
The game is very simple: you race smoking dragster cars or beautiful wild horses by answering math problems. The game paces itself to your student’s responses, and competing cars only race as fast as his own previous scores, so winning is really just improving day by day. This is a good one, and my children will work at their math on their own just for fun! Covers whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, integers, equations, estimation, plus math tricks. Cross Section gives you a sampling of all grades. Graded CD’s go into greater depth on each subject. Requirements–PC: 384K min, Windows 98-Windows 7. Mac system 7.01 min, 8 MB Ram.
