Teacher Rated: 4 out of 5
I have my son age 8 using this program all Summer. He has worked on it 15 minutes a day EVERY day. We have found that the program is fun and has some solid merit to it. The positives: The graphs, audio, and ease of use. The math problems are good for beginners. The problem I have found is that after mastery of many of the problems other problems will not show up. My son’s report card on the game has shown the same problems undone for 3 days now. Note that it shows full mastery of all the other problems. There is a huge chunk of problems that simply do not show. I would state that this is a good introductory game for use two to three hours, but after that you are hitting repetition. Also the program allows the kids to get all the swords and armour well before they have mastered all of the sections. This causes student bordom. There is a motivational factor for the student to get the points to purchase items. Once they bought or upgraded everything the ‘thrill’ factor is over and it’s simply doing math. If this gets fixed it could easily be a 5 star app, but till then it’s a 3.5 or a 4. Fix the dead problem issue and add more swords and armour at higher purchase levels.
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