Mathville Middle School

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Details: Type: Win/Mac CD-ROM Win OS: 95, 98, Me, NT 4, 2000, XP, Vista or Windows 7 Mac OS: Mac OS 8.6, 9.x, 10.1.x ~ 10.5.x or up to Intel Mac 10.7.x Lion SMART Board compatible content "Standard" Accreditation Ages: 11 and up Grade: 6 to 8	Point your mouse on the logo below for description

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Explore the virtual village of Mathville, where everything from work to sport is filled with math and fun!

In Mathville Middle School version 3, you'll work, shop, and play -- and hone your math skills along the way.

As you try out careers ranging from chef to webmaster, you'll solve real-world math problems you'd face in these professions.

You'll also do the math needed to keep yourself fed, clothed and housed. And you'll use your mathematical know-how in sports ranging from hockey to basketball.

While reinforcing the math skills learned in school, Mathville MS is designed to empower learners to develop creative problem-solving skills and a real sense of math confidence.

Mathville MS is the latest, updated edition in the popular, award-winning Mathville series. While it keeps all of the features of the earlier editions, the redesigned Mathville MS incorporates many new features and enhancements.

New Features of Mathville Middle School

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- New curriculum, including algebra, data interpretation, integers and exponents
- The Teacher's eKit, a powerful new companion program that generates printable worksheets and tests tied to specific topics in the curriculum (available in school editions only)
- Updated careers to reflect today's technology-oriented work environment
- Windows XP and Mac OS X-native, without excluding earlier operating systems
- New graphics in full-screen format
- Flash-based code and compression allows Internet and LAN delivery
- Printable session records allow teachers and students to track student progress

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Learning Objectives

Mathville MS reinforces and extends skills taught in grades 6 to 8 classrooms, including:

- decimals, fractions, ratios and percent
- estimation
- exponents
- multi-step word problems
- order of operations
- graphs and data
- area, perimeter, surface area and volume
- pattern recognition
- estimating angles
- slides, flips and turns
- two- and three-dimensional figures
- probability
- integers
- algebraic expressions and substitution

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Meets NCTM-prescribed curriculum

Mathville MS adheres to the mathematics curriculum prescribed by both NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) and most educational jurisdictions in North America.

Mathville MS Correlations for:

System Requirements:

Windows:
- 166 MHz processor (or better)
- Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4, 2000, XP, Vista or Windows 7
- 16 MB RAM (32 MB recommended)
- 1024 x 768 resolution display with 16-bit color (or better)
- CD-ROM drive (required for program installation only)
- 25 MB available hard-disk space
- Windows-compatible sound card (if sound is desired)

Mac:
- Power Mac with 133 MHz processor (or better)
- Mac OS 8.6, 9.x, 10.1.x ~ 10.5.x or up to Intel Mac 10.7.x Lion
- 16 MB free RAM
- 1024 x 768 resolution display with thousands of colors (or better)
- CD-ROM drive (required for program installation only)
- 25 MB available hard-disk space

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Mathville Middle School

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