Number of Players: 1
Special Equipment/Facilities Needed:
A pen or a pencil will probably come in handy because you have to remember
the previous questions to answer the other ones. In order words you
have a problem per each section and that one problem is interelated
with the other questions they going to ask you later in the exercise.
Subject Area: Junior High mathematic 6-8
grade
Objectives: Teaching Junior High
School students how to understand basics word problems, and how to set
them up. It also teach them how to use fractions
Brief Description: This software is basically
deals with word problems and algebra.
Entry Capabilities Required: These
students would have to know how to do additions, subtractions, divisions,
multiplications and fractions.
Rating: (1-5) 5-good 1-bad and why?
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Relevance to objectives: 3 it did cover some of the objective
but not all. It only touch some of the basic stuff.
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Provides practice of relevant skills: 3 The
exercises were pretty much on the level of the students that the program
is for. It was right on the
target.
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Likely to arouse/maintain interest: 1 It was very
boring.
It was just an exercise that teachers could use with their lesson plan.
That teache would have to work extra hard to actuallu keep her/his students
interest.
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Likely to be comprehended clearly: 4 The exercise were pretty
strainght forward. It gives feedback on problems that you get wrong
and explain how you could of approach it.
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Technical quality (durable, attractive): 1 I do not
know what else to say about the appearances of this software because it
did not have any. It was organize enough to know where you are and
where you want to go but that's about it.
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Game: Winning dependent on player actions (rather than chance):
4 This software is all educational. It had nothing to laught at or
to find funny. It is all work no play.
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Simulation: Validity of game model (realistic, accurate
depiction):
4: This game is very real. You can not get more into
reality.
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Evidence of effectiveness (e.g. field-test results): 4
the only that thought that was good in this software it the fact that it
gives the students good exercises and help them outline their process of
getting to the answer
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Clear directions for play: 3: this was not
a game it was just exercises
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Effectiveness of debriefing:
4:
It was not the level that I was looking for but it was pretty good for
the level of grade that it was suppose to be for.
Strong Points: The strongest point
in this software is the fact that it has many facts and exercises to do,
and also in answering the questions they explain the answers.
Weak Points:
Its was very boring to just sit there and do exercises. I thought
it needed a little more work on almost
everything.
Reviewer: Rose C. Amazan
Position:undergrad student potsdam
Date: 09/15/98
Computer System Reviewed on: Macintosh
PowerPC 6500/250, 32mb ram.