Word: maths
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THREE-TO-SIX-YEAR-OLDS: For the youngest set of computer users, simplicity rules. Reader Rabbit I from the Learning Company uses digitized speech to help youngsters read and spell; kids click on three-letter words to hear Reader Rabbit pronounce them aloud. Millie's Math House from Edmark has an animated talking cow that invites children into her home to learn about numbers, shapes and sizes. And just this month, Software Toolworks released Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! for Kids, a simplified version of a program for older children that has sold more than 3 million copies since...
...YEAR-OLDS: Kidware for this group must be demanding enough to keep children interested but not so tough as to cause them to switch off their machines. Davidson & Associates' Math Blaster, a venerable series that has sold 1.6 million copies since 1983, freely borrows video-game techniques. The latest title, In Search of Spot, sends kids on a quest to rescue the Blasternaut's caterpillar-like space pal. The correct answer to a math problem puts the user closer to freeing Spot from the Trash Alien's ship. The Even More Incredible Machine, from Sierra On-Line, confronts users with...
Does this software really teach kids anything that sticks? While there are no wide-ranging, independent studies to prove that such best sellers as Math Blaster and Reader Rabbit boost students' grades or test scores, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that kids love them -- and that the best ones can be useful teaching aids. Garry Breitstein, a teacher at Seattle's Hawthorne School, says his fifth-graders often spend their lunch hour and recess logging on to programs like Microsoft's Creative Writer, which helps children write stories by suggesting possible situations and opening lines. Another favorite is Microsoft...
...state standards. In an eleventh-hour effort to save the school, the district two years ago used federal money to buy a computer learning program called SuccessMaker, developed by the Computer Curriculum Corp. of Sunnyvale, California. The software allows individual students to advance at their own pace through reading, math and science lessons. After spending as much as an hour a day at their terminals, the students produced average test scores 50% higher than before; that helped persuade officials to keep the school open last year...
American education's increased emphasis on math and science has boosted school kids' proficiency, and and more students are taking advanced classes such as biology, chemistry and physics, the federal government reports. But a gender gap in math and science achievement still exists; the survey found that boys outscore girls in both disciplines. The good news follows a poor showing by American students in reading and writing skills, which was reported earlier by the U.S. Department of Education...