Polygon Explores Mathematics from De Marque
Polygon Explores Mathematics is the first title in a collection of educational games starring Polygon the robot.
The whole educational program in maths for grades 1 and 2 is covered through 80 games and activities packed in an easy-to-use software. With the help of Polygon's oral instructions, the CD-ROM can be operated by the child alone through simple navigation controls.
The CD-ROM contains both the English and the French versions of the games that take place in the enchanted realm of toys. Each game aims at specific learning objectives and comes in 4 levels of difficulty that follow the learning process of mathematical skills.
Sample of games
Polygon the robot explores a toy chest full of learning opportunities and excitting games that will help develop his mathematical skills:
- the train of operations
- the memory game with solids
- toy soldiers who walk in row when their numbers are properly ordered
- a firefighter truck that you drive along the number line
- "grid of numbers" jigsaw puzzles
- a digital clock and an analog clock that you set to the same time
- a set of playing cards that must be arranged on a grid
- the boat that sails along regular numerical series
- a frog who leaps over arrays of waterlilies
- books and magazines to be ordered according to the months of the year
- a collection of flying saucers that can be classified according to several features
Features
Numbers and operations
Natural numbers (1 to 1 000) : counting, representing, comparison, numeric order, series, operations (plus and minus)
Geometry
Shapes, 2-D figures, 3-D solids, similarities and differences, space, spatial relations, orientation, logical series, introduction to fractions
Measures
Length, distance, time of the day, months of the year, calendar
System Requirements
Windows
Pentium II
Windows 98, Me, NT4, 2000 or XP
32 MB of RAM
Macintosh
Power Mac G3
Mac OS 8.6, OS X
32 MB of RAM
Polygon Explores Mathematics from De Marque
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