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More Math Fun

(Excerpted from The Computer Museum Guide )

You can find some intriguing math adventures in many "non-math" programs recommended in The Computer Museum Guide to the Best Software for Kids. Here are a few of our favorites:

TitlesAgesDescriptions
Thinkin' Things Collection 1 3-8 Feathered Friends and the Fripple Shop let kids explore attributes and play with Boolean logic (and, or, not).
Sammy's Science House 2-5Make-A-Movie encourages children to practice sequencing. In the Sorting Station, kids find similarities and differences in pictures of plants and animals.
Zurk's Rainforest Lab 5-9Seek and Sort challenges older kids to group animals by their characteristics, developing the analytic skills of classifying and sorting. Puzzle Patterns provides a colorful opportunity for kids to visualize geometric and spatial relationships.
What's the Secret? 7-12The "How many pieces can a pizza produce?" activity is a concrete example of fractions in everyday life; it lets kids build their understanding by manipulating numerators and denominators. It also convincingly demonstrates the connection between fractions, decimals, and percentages.
Recess in Greece 7-12Magic Squares is a classic game that helps kids develop analytic and computational skills.
Thinkin' Things Collection 3 7-13The Fripples are back with a playful and challenging set of logic problems for older kids in the latest Thinkin' Things title. The program's Stocktopus activity gives kids a real workout in deductive and inductive reasoning and exercises problem-solving skills.
Travelrama USA 8-12Because calculating mileage is an important part of this geography game, kids have an opportunity to strengthen their mental computational abilities.
Widget Workshop 10 and UpScience experiments and widget construction encourage conceptual thinking and number-crunching. Kids encounter equations, scientific notation, probability and logic. They can even build their own calculator.




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