Product Description

Advantage provides an interactive learning experience and the tools students need to gain learning confidence and improve their grades. Help your child build a solid academic foundation with Math Advantage, a complete student resource center that combines lessons, exercises and quizzes with additional learning resources to support and motivate your child in reaching his full academic potential.With Math Advantage, your child will develop and test his knowledge in all areas of Math, from Addition and Subtraction to Algebra, Geometry, Statistics and more. Additional study aids such as iPod study materials will help support the learning process while brain-building games make studying fun!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1016 in Software
• Brand: Encore
• Model: 17290
• Released on: 2009-05-25
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .30 pounds

Features

• Elementary Advantage 2010 is a complete student resource center that combines lessons, exercises and quizzes with additional learning resources
• Provides an interactive learning experience and the tools students need to reach their full academic potential
• Interactive lessons and exercises that reinforce classroom learning; brain-building games add fun to studying
• Allows your child to learn at his/her own pace, build critical skills, identify problem areas and review lessons as needed
• Includes helpful reference tools plus iPod study materials

Amazon.com Product Description
Advantage provides an interactive learning experience and the tools students need to gain learning confidence and improve their grades. Help your child build a solid academic foundation with Math Advantage, a complete student resource center that combines lessons, exercises and quizzes with additional learning resources to support and motivate your child in reaching his or her full academic potential.

Build a strong math foundation with detailed explanations and creative lessons that make it easy to grasp key concepts. Click to enlarge.

Get a head start in Algebra with an engaging introduction to algebraic symbols, variables and expressions. Click to enlarge.

Develop a firm understanding of algebraic concepts and learn how to apply them in solving complex problems. Click to enlarge.

Master Geometry at your own pace with detailed lessons and practice exercises that reinforce learned skills. Click to enlarge.

Improve your knowledge of trigonometric functions, identities and more through interactive lessons and exercises that teach the fundamentals. Click to enlarge.

Learn how to collect, analyze and present complex data in a clear and concise manner. Click to enlarge.

Develop a clearer understanding of Calculus with the help of simplified explanations and detailed examples. Click to enlarge.

The ADVANTAGE Approach to Effective Learning:

ADVANTAGE uses a unique approach that combines interactive lessons, exercises, and quizzes with additional learning resources to support and motivate students in reaching their full academic potential.

• Engage
  Interactive learning experience engages the student
  
  
• Reinforce
  Standards-driven lesson plan reinforces classroom learning
  
  
• Support
  Study aids & reference tools support the learning experience
  
  
• Motivate
  Brain-building games add fun to studying

Student Benefits

• Learn At Your Own Pace
• Build Critical Skills
• Identify Problem Areas
• Review Lessons As Needed

Student Resources

• Excel Tutor
• iPod study materials

Study Break Extras

• Brain-building games

Core Curriculum

Basic Math
Build a strong math foundation with detailed explanations and creative lessons that make it easy to grasp key concepts.

• Counting Techniques
• Factor Trees
• Fractions & Decimals
• Perimeter & Area
• Systems of Measurement

Pre-Algebra
Get a head start in Algebra with an engaging introduction to algebraic symbols, variables and expressions.

• Mixed Numbers
• Ratios & Proportions
• Scientific Notation
• Order of Operations
• Formulas & Substitution

Algebra I & II
Develop a firm understanding of algebraic concepts and learn how to apply them in solving complex problems.

• Expressions & Equations
• Absolute Values
• Lines, Slopes & Intercepts
• Proportions & Inequalities
• Polynomials & Functions

Geometry
Master Geometry at your own pace with detailed lessons and practice exercises that reinforce learned skills.

• Reasoning & Equality
• Lines & Angles
• Circles & Triangles
• Quadrilaterals
• Transformations

Trigonometry
Improve your knowledge of trigonometric functions, identities and more through interactive lessons and exercises that teach the fundamentals.

• Complex Numbers
• Functions & Equations
• Pythagorean Theorem
• Laws of Sines
• Laws of Cosines

Statistics & Probability
Learn how to collect, analyze and present complex data in a clear and concise manner.

• Mean, Median & Mode
• Standard Deviation
• Sampling Theory
• Correlation & Regression
• Plots & Graphs

Calculus
Develop a clearer understanding of Calculus with the help of simplified explanations and detailed examples.

• Limits & Continuity
• Derivatives
• Sequences & Series
• Common Graphs
• Functions & Equations

PLUS: Brain-Building Games and iPod Study Materials!

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Customer Reviews

Not worth the money at all, horrible program!
I am currently a 16-year-old, about to take Precalculus next year. I bought this program in preparation for my classes. However, I was disappointed. The interface is very crude; it forces your computer into full-screen mode (without an option to change) and the voice takes forever to speak and slows down the program. And when you take a quiz, its always the same 15 questions, but in a different order, so its impossible to get any decent practice.

Plus, when I tried to use the calculus program (even reinstalling windows XP to do it) the program didn't work at all! I've never seen a worse computer program.

This is a terrible program.

Not Really Helping
I brought this software after reading the great reviews for math advantage 2008 and ignoring math advantage 2009 reviews. The reason I need the software is I am a college student about to take Calculus. So far I am unimpressed with Math Advantage 2010 it has small sections with animations that repeat the same examples in the lesson. Each section contains one excerise and it's always the same exercise.

The software I was looking for would identify the problems I have with math and contain multiple exercises along with detailed explanations. This software provides concise information that is clear and understandable but very few excerises that go along with the lesson. Furthermore, the animations are the same examples as in the lesson.

Highlights are the math games, the information is presented in a clear and easily understood way. Furthermore each section is brief. It'll probabley be great just for a quick math refresher.

My idea of Math Advantage 2010 is a quickly put together with no real idea of what a person who is bad in math needs.

However, I am going to give it a few more days before I send it back. I want to at least give it a week.

My recommdention is for 19.99 buy it as a supplement to a good textbook-the information is easily presented but if you really need good math software with lots of examples and exercises. Save your money.

P.S. the calculus section is just the Idiot's Guide to Calculus book.