Parents' Guide to

Math Missions Grades K-2

By Jinny Gudmundsen, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 6+

Kids use math to save city from financial ruin.

Game Windows , Mac 2003
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Based on 4 parent reviews

daniel jose torrez
daniel jose torrez Adult
October 19, 2010
age 2+
it is good
pupka
pupka Parent of 7-year-old
October 2, 2010
age 7+
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What’s It About?

in MATH MISSIONS GRADES K-2, Spectacle City is struggling because its store clerks are mathematically challenged. Its special game arcade has had to close. Youngsters rescue Spectacle City by helping the store clerks with math in 12 activities covering counting, adding and subtracting, identifying numbers and numerals, money, time, geometric shapes, weighing and measuring objects, recognizing and comparing sets, sorting and classifying objects, and place value.

For example, at the toy store, players help the clerk fill orders by separating toy bundles into place-value bins marked as \"ones,\" \"tens,\" and \"hundreds.\" Kids will need to help all the clerks in the town before they can open the game arcade. By helping the clerks, youngsters earn money to pay for the arcade games. These arcade games are a great motivation to do the math exercises, and two of the three arcade games involve logical thinking skills.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say (4 ):
Kids say (15 ):

Kids will learn a lot of math by playing this software. Many of the problems provide math manipulatives, so children can experiment with on-screen objects to learn math concepts. If a problem stumps a child, a character arrives to help. The activities can be played on three levels of difficulty.

While the title suggests that this software is appropriate for kindergarteners, it is not. Many of the math activities assume mastery of math skills that kindergarteners are just beginning to learn.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about other real-world applications for the math skills used in the game. When do you think they'd come in handy?

Game Details

  • Platforms: Windows , Mac
  • Available online?: Not available online
  • Publisher: Scholastic
  • Release date: August 25, 2003
  • Genre: Educational
  • ESRB rating: NR
  • Last updated: November 4, 2015

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