Mia's Math Adventure: Just In Time From:Kutoka Interactive , Kutoka ,
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Kutoka Interactive
EAN: 0632332061208
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone 10+
Format: CD-ROM
Weight: 45 hundredths-pounds
Label: Kutoka
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Kutoka
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 130 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 740 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 35 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows 98
Platform: Windows 2000
Platform: Windows Me
Platform: Windows XP
Platform: Mac OS X
Platform: Windows 95
Publisher: Kutoka
Release Date: 2004-09-30
Studio: Kutoka
Feature:
- Guide Mia in her quest to find the parts for the time machine, and collect sparklies to use as fuel
- Explore a rich and captivating new world, with film-quality animation -- but watch out for Romaine Rat, he's always up to no good
- Teaches addition, subtraction, multiplication & division; geometry; logic; angles and lines, mental computation & other skills
- Age-appropriate difficulty levels that match national education curriculum
Product Description:
In Mia's Math Adventure: Just In Time, children will help Mia save her house by using their math skills!
Customer Reviews:
 successful mix of entertainment and quality education?????, 2008-07-12
I'm not happy with the manner in which they executed the story-based gameplay. Your child's progress to the next segment is dependant on your child laboriously clicking to figure out what to do next. Even when you're certain where you need to go, it is a chore to walk Mia to the next location. Would be great it they had some software patches to make the "click boxes" for certain targets larger so Mia does not walk aimlessly into a circle when we're trying to make her perform an action on a item or simply walk a certain direction.
The educational content we experienced includes but was not limited to simple arithmetic, filling in missing numbers from sequence, knowing how to adjust the clock, distinguishing between shapes, matching symmetry, sorting and identifying numbers. My son simply found the games OK. He did not have the same excitement he had when playing other games like Dora the Explorer series. While the educational content is welcome, it always seemed like there was something missing - seemed poorly executed. In a couple of games the correct answer is not always available for clicking (e.g. the numbers are on a conveyor belt or floating inside a crystal ball so one has to wait until the right answer comes along).
The cut scenes were somewhat entertaining and the graphics and sound are decent but at times my son (and I) wish we had a button we could click to skip to the next adventure. After taking part in the laborious walking (i.e. clicking) to get to our next destination, we were sort of anxious to get moving along.
I'm having a hard time recommending this one to other parents. I'm tempted to e-mail Kutoka with some suggestions and hope they might consider changing a few things to make the gameplay more smooth by removing some of the guesswork and grind that goes inbetween segments as well as making the math games more user-friendly. While other reviewers were excited about this, I'm quite dissapointed right now but hopeful. I'm hoping to get some more gameplay out of this one; I hope when my son gets older there is replay value in trying the game at a harder level. I happened to purchase another Kutoka game at the same time which my son and I haven't tried yet. I only hope it's much better than this one.
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