LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Scholastic Math Missions
LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Scholastic Math Missions
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 real world.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars kittykalena
My daughter has loved playing this game. She was having problems remembering simple math this gave her the review she needed in a fun way. Her math grades have improved and I am happy.
3 Stars Good game – but has a bug…
Bottom line – we had to return this cartridge after a few days because it has a bug – at least in our cartridge and when played on our Leapster 2, the tangram (window allignment) game gets stuck and says not everything is covered (it happens in all three levels) – and from then on you can’t play it, because it returns to that same stage. But other than that it’s a good game, and we returned it with the hope of repurchasing it when Leapfrog fix the bug…
The game has 4 assignments and 3 arcade games you can play with the money you earned on the assignments.
In other reviews and in the leapfrog site I didn’t see a mention of what the arcade games are, so here goes: 1) snake (25 cents)
2) flying a spaceship to rescue soldiers – you have limited fuel (which is used to boost you up – and then you can move to the sides as well) and you need to avoid crashing into the rocks – 50 cents.
3) castle something – in each level you are in a room with ladders and you have a limited time in which to get the key and open the door to exit the room, while collecting as many coins as you can to raise your score (there’s a bonus for collecting all coins). As you progress you need to collect boots that help you jump higher, avoid guards, ride a flying step, etc (we had to return the game before I found out what the etc. is…)
I am an adult, so I have played snake too much in the past to enjoy it, but I recall that I used to enjoy it when it was the only thing to play on the cellphone. The other two are fun, but I can’t tell you how many levels they have, since, as I mentioned, we returned the game.
As for the assignments:
(1) The window tangram game that gets stuck
(2) A fish weighing game (e.g. put the right combination of fish so their weights add up to 3 x 4)
(3) A candy box game where you need to find the right combination of candies the customer is interested in (mastermind/bulls and cows – in the first level the location of the candy doesn’t matter)
(4) The sale tagging game in which you need to tag with a sales tag items that describe the chosen number (e.g. 5 -> five, 2+3, 6-1, odd,…) – the items are on a moving conveyor belt so you need to decide fast.
All the games are pretty good – only the fish weighing game is a little too boring – it’s probably the one that teaches the most math, but it lacks the fun aspect, like the speed factor of the tagging game (the other two are real games) – it’s a little too close to being a regular math question.
All in all – if it wasn’t for the bug – we’d keep the game, and I’d play it (my daughter is not 4 yet – and can basically only play the tangram assignment independently – but she didn’t mind playing the others and just asked for help).
5 Stars great game
my 5 year old son loves this game. he picked every other game for himself (and never looked interested in this one) before i finally got him this as a gift. now he adores it and it continues to be challenging for him, as the levels get harder as his skills get better. wonderful!
5 Stars very colorful and fun
My 6 yr old loves this game and is learning math with it. I have always been bad at math so I buy whatever I see that can help her so that she does not have my problem. Well, it is working she loves math and loves to play with her leapster. She says that is her T.V, when she is not allow to watch the real thing and she is not afraid of math. She was the first one in her kindergarten class to master adding and substrating. It is all because of the leapster.woohoo!
5 Stars fun learning
My grandson loves this. He even said that it was fun and it is teaching him alot even if he thinks it is just a game.
I would recommend this to kids that need help with math and want to have fun at the same time.
