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6 - 7 Number Sense - Software/CD-ROM

  • Arithmetic review 2.0 (ENC-013374) This CD-ROM with user's guide contains a program at three skill levels to assist students in learning, memorizing, and mastering the basic arithmetic facts of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Each skill level contains interactive activities for learning, practicing, and drilling. Included are animated flashcard activities, spoken problems, tutorial narration, and timed problem sets.

  • Boxer introductory algebra (ENC-010925) This CD-ROM tutorial covers the concepts of pre-algebra and beginning algebra in a visual, interactive environment. Organization of topics is based on concepts and subconcepts related to understanding algebra. The tutorial provides detailed explanation of the concepts immediately followed by questions applying the concepts; it uses readings, pictures, and animation to engage as many of the user's senses as possible for the purpose of retention.

  • Fraction attraction (ENC-013377) In this CD-ROM, designed for grades 3 to 8, Gilda the Gator guides students through a fairgrounds full of fraction games that test student's understanding of multiple representations of a number by fractions, decimals, and percents, and their sense of the relative sizes of fractions with different denominators. There are four games at the fairgrounds, each of which can be set to different levels of difficulty.

  • Math Workshop deluxe (ENC-013950) This CD-ROM contains eight interactive learning activities to introduce and reinforce math skills in problem solving, basic operations and computation, pattern recognition, spatial thinking, and logical reasoning. Poly Gonzales, a middle school math whiz, explains the eight math workshop activities, which include dividing a whole into fractional parts and using the fraction parts to make music, building three types of puzzles that become animated, and painting patterns.

  • SkillsBank 4 (ENC-013537) This CD-ROM tutorial offers instruction in basic skills concepts to support preparation for high school equivalency exams. The subject areas covered are basic and intermediate mathematics, language arts, and information skills. Basic mathematics topics include place value and rounding, simplifying fractions, and computation. Intermediate mathematics topics include proportion, percent, and an introduction to algebra. Diagnostic pretests and post tests are included for all topics.

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