LeapFrog® Leapster® Learning Game: Scholastic Math Missions 6 - 9 Years by LeapFrog List Price: $24.99 $24.99 At Amazon on 11-8-2008.

Features Real-world mathematics challenges await you in Spectacle City as you use your skills to save local stores! Don't let trouble multiply at the seafood market--select the correct fish to balance the scale. Complete mathematics problems and earn money. Spend your hard-earned cash playing three exciting games at the arcade. Teaches addition, subtraction, multiplication, money and geometry. Manufacturer Description Save the stores of Spectacle City and develop real-world math skills as you complete orders at a candy store, build a skyscraper and more! Earn reward ¿money¿ by solving math problems, then spend your hard-earned cash on exciting arcade games. Leapster2 players can connect online for extra activities and rewards. And with the LeapFrog® Learning Path, parents can see what their child is learning. Appropriate for ages 4 years to 8 years. All Leapster games work with all Leapster systems. Product Description Math Missions gives children a chance to save the stores of Spectacle City and develop real-world math skills. As they complete orders at a candy store, build a skyscraper and more, they'll learn to face math challenges in the realworld. Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism My son, who is now five, received his leapster last November. He has several cartridges, all of which he enjoys. However, the Math Missions game, which we recently purchased online, seems to have captured his attention in a way that the others did not. While all the Leapster titles attempt to make a game out of learning, this cartridge does an exceptional job. For example, instead of requiring him to identify that 4+5=9, it gives him three fish, weighing 4, 5 and 9 pounds each. He needs to figure out how to put them on a scale to make the scale balance. This is a much more interesting "puzzle" and it teaches what an equation really means, at an intuative level. Another activity reminds me of the old game "Mastermind", where he needs to figure out the right combination of candies to put in a box. Through trial-and-error and deductive reasoning, he can figure it out. It's a fun challenge that teaches important logic skills. The incentive system is also well done. By earning money for doing math tasks, my son can then pay to play "video arcade" games, which are more fun than educational in nature. (The games are simple and just the right level of complexity for 5-7 year olds, along the lines of early video games like pac-man.)He LOVES these games, and is willing to spend hours doing the math puzzles in order to earn the money to play the video games. This is a great game. I hope Scholastic puts out more cartridges for the Leapster platform. LeapFrog® Leapster® Learning Game: Scholastic Math Missions Available from Amazon Updated on 11-8-2008.

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