In Mathville VIP you are the Very Important Person who makes things happen - by applying your math problem-solving skills in all kinds of real-world situations.
Join the work force and earn credits by using numeric, spatial and graphing math skills in hundreds of different jobs. Sharpen your focus on symmetry, ratios, area and other math topics in Photography, one of the five activities in the Hobby Shop.
Swap your hockey stick for a protractor and score from a new angle in Hockey, one of the five activities in Sports. Check out Soccer in the Sports Hall and you’ll never look at a soccer ball in the same way again – you’ll be seeing pentagons, perimeters and rotational symmetry!
At work, students choose from a variety of different jobs at two levels of difficulty. Then it’s on to sports, hobbies and the shops, keeping in mind that math skills are required all over town. At the office and at the end of every session, printable certificates and status reports are available for record-keeping.
Mathville VIP has extensive curriculum content based on real world activities.
It is packed with activities designed to inspire creative problem solving . VIP reinforces and extends skills taught in grade 6 to 9 classrooms.
· decimals, fractions and percent
· estimation
· multi step problems
· graphs and data
· area and perimeter
· pattern recognition
· measuring angles, time, length and weight
· slides, flips and turns
· two- and three-dimensional figures
· ratio and rate
· probability
+ much more!
NCTM standards
Mathville VIP is just one of seven titles in this multimedia CD-ROM series for K-9 math. The Mathville series supports National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ standards for:
· Remedial
· Enrichment
· Special Education/ESL
· At Risk Students
Minimum System Requirements:
Windows:
Pentium system at 90Mhz or better
Windows 95 or 98
16 Mb RAM
25Mb available hard drive space
Display capable of 640x480 resolution at 16 bit color
4X CD-ROM drive
Soundblaster compatible sound card
MS compatible mouse.
Mac:
Power Macintosh system at 100Mhz or better
System 7.5.3 or higher
4 Mb free RAM
25Mb available hard drive space
Display capable of 640x480 resolution at thousands of colors
4X CD-ROM drive.
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