Product Description

Build a bevy of sharp math skills as you trek high in the Himalayas with the ClueFinders. They're on a quest to find missing ancient treasures and they need your sharp wits to hunt for clues. From purchasing supplies in the village store to building a yak corral, every activity is a math learning challenge.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #428 in Software
• Brand: The Learning Company
• Model: CFM3744AE
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Windows NT, Macintosh, Linux, Unix, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: .31 pounds

From Parents' Choice®

If you want to convince your child math is essentially a game, sign him up for this first all-math Cluefinders expedition in search of missing treasure in the Himalayas. The plot premise is little more than a vehicle for a series of eight math-skill based activities and several arcade-like games that prove fun, challenging and parallel what fourth through sixth graders are learning in the classroom. Cartoonish animation and the spunky antics and dialogue of the four teenage Cluefinders help make more inviting the equations, graphs, geometric shapes, fractions, decimals, multiplication, division, word problems, and other math concepts and skills practiced.

A nice teaching reinforcing element in activities such as the Village Store requires kids not only have to think through word problems, but visually demonstrate (with products, not numbers) how they solved them. Children struggling with interpretive graphs will find The Clothes Shop especially helpful. As kids assist Cluefinders in solving problems and completing activities, they earn clues to the identity of the thief who stole one of the 24 missing treasures. This is an excellent who-dunnit activity that requires critical thinking. This Cluefinders package also includes a bonus CD-ROM disk of a previously released and pretty good TLC math title, "Operation Neptune," for the same age group.

A 1998 Parents' Choice® Gold Award.

Reviewed by Don Oldenburg, Parents' Choice® 1998

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Customer Reviews

amazing
This game help my son so much in Math he went from a 60 to a 90 in one term

Cluefinder's Math (Ages 9-12)
Cluefinder's Math : Ages 9-12
* Grades 3-12
* Mathematics
COMMENTS:
Students can build math skills as they solve mysteries. There are 15 games at 10 different skill levels, which build more than 25 key math skills, including number computation, fractions and decimals, tables and graphs, and early geometry. Logic and problem solving skills are used as the student attempts to piece together clues to deduce the answers to the mystery.

ClueFinder's Math includes exceptional graphics and animation and a great storyline. I would not recommended ClueFinder's Math for the struggling student who needs instruction and practice with math skills, but for an average or above-average math student who enjoys fast-switching games and wants to work at quick-thinking and multi-tasking. I also do not feel that the three levels of play cover all basic math concepts for children ages 9-12 and at some levels there are both extremely easy as well as extremely difficult problems. Additionally some students may become frustrated with the speed at which they are required to respond as they solve problems.

CLASSROOM CONNECTION:
I would have students work individually to work their way through the village, solving math puzzles in the eight activity locations, and earning clues in an attempt to discover what treasure was stolen, where it is hidden, and who stole it.

A fun and intresting game
The Cluefinders' have all sort's of games out. Some of the games are a little easier to figure out but the math game is still really fun. It teaches all sort's of math that gears you up for 5th grade. It is fun and intresting.