Product Description

A fine covert way to get your child interested in Math while playing these exciting games / Education made sweet / ESRB E Everyone

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #380 in Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Model: PersonalTrainerMath
• Released on: 2009-01-12
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Dimensions: .60" h x 4.90" w x 5.40" l, .25 pounds

Features

• Requires a Nintendo DS handheld gaming console to play
• innovative 100-Cell learning method
• fast-paced, high-speed arithmetic problems
• Forty different exercises
• Practice simple addition and subtraction to more elaborate multiplication tables and calculation ladders

Amazon.com Product Description
A classroom at the tip of your finger! Have you ever struggled for exact change at a cash register or fought over how to divide a dinner bill? Do you have trouble getting your kids interested in their math homework? Personal Trainer: Math takes the pain out of arithmetic by providing a fun and rewarding way to improve your math abilities!

The innovative 100-Cell method makes learning a game. These fast-paced, high-speed arithmetic problems keep your math basics fresh, from addition to subtraction and multiplication to division.

Daily math drills and an attendance record help keep you on track. As your calculation speed improves, earn medals in each exercise to prove your mathematical mastery!

Forty different exercises, from simple addition and subtraction series to more elaborate multiplication tables and calculation ladders, provide tons of ways to build on your knowledge and improve your arithmetic skills until all your math worries evaporate forever!

Customer Reviews

Good practice for kids.
I purchased this game for a 9 year old who hates doing flash cards. This game is helping her become quicker with her basic math facts. Since that is the reason I purchased the game, I am very happy with it. I get her to play the game 3 to 4 times a week for 10 - 15 minutes at a time and have already seen an improvement in the quickness that she can come up with the answer. We have had no problems with the screen being able to tell what number it is that we have written. All people in my house have played the game and we all have varying degrees of neatness/sloppiness to our handwriting and how we write our numbers. This is a good game for the kids who need to sharpen up their math facts. As an adult, I do find the game a bit boring and repetitive, but I really don't think this game was aimed for an adult crowd. Overall, a good game for the price for the kids around ages 7-10.

Math In Mind
When it has came down to Nintendo, they definitely reintroduced themselves to a whole new kind of gamer. Since Nintendo came out with great mind-challenging games for the Wii and Nintendo DS a few years ago, the gaming community has been brought up for more casual gamers that want to stimulate the mind and the soul. That has shown with the DS heavily to older gamers with successful games like Brain Age and Big Brain Academy. But, it has also shown with Nintendo as they are not just maing stand outs for hard core gamers, but also exercises that make you stronger at heart and mind. they're now showing that video games can be great teaching tools, in cooking recently with Personal Trainer: Cooking and mainly with mathematics, and now they are about to do it again for the DS.

Personal Trainer: Math for the Nintendo DS, is a stimualting title, that reintroduces the memory and challenges of solving simple, everyday math problems. The gameplay is simple, and easy to understand, as you use your stylus, and your mind to go through everyday activities. The graphics are simple, and let the gameplay speak for itself. As you go through the game, there are numerous exercises that help stimulate your mind from basic math problems with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, to easy to understand word problems, and even memorizing flash cards. While the game might seem like it is for babies, it actually teaches math strongly to those who need to be refreshed on their basic skills. While it isn't able to be as addictive as Brain Age was for DS woners, but expands the DS library very nicely, as a smart teaching tool that works well.

All in all, Personal Trainer: Math for the Nintendo DS is not actually a video game, but a strong teaching tool that shows just how much you can easily be reintroduced to the basics of math skills in everyday life. Whether you are starting to learn in grade school, or if you're forgetting the easiest of problems, it is a great buy for anyone who wants a new way to learn all about the simplicity of everyday math.

Graphics: B

Sound: B

Control: B+

Fun & Enjoyment: B-

Overall: B 1/2-

My Son Now Likes Math!!!!
Our little boy is in the 3rd Grade and has been "getting by" in math without really liking it. We'd have to use positive reward type motivation to get him to do his drills without groaning and then my husband downloaded the demo of Personal Trainer Math.

Both our kids (8 & 5) played this demo non-stop for two hours until they passed out on the couch (they chose this over watching a movie with us)!!!

The game basically has them run through several different types of drills covering addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with the help of a very cute animated professor!

The only frustrating thing is you have to teach yourself how to write the numbers so that the game can process your answers in order to get the best time.

The kids have got that figured out and now they do their daily tests each day. Our son is at a level six. He's very confident in his ability to solve math problems quickly (which is a huge improvement). It's so nice to see him excited about math!!! What a change in his attitude and approach to the subject this game has made!