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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: April 05, 2004
- Total Downloads: 35,442
- Downloads last week: 133
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 9 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Students can test their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills with Math Compass. You can set levels of difficulty and the particular operation (or random operations) to practice. In practice mode, you solve equations and are rewarded with a cute picture when you get them right. The correct answer appears when you get them wrong. Game mode consists of three single-player and one dual-player drills. The two-player Head to Head option lets you set an ending score, while Time Trial ends after the interval you've chosen expires. Other games just keep going. Tutorials offer great tips on quickly solving the different types of problems. The session report details each question, your answer, and the correct answer for practice mode.
Unfortunately, we ran across a few difficulties. We had to install Visual Basic to get Math Compass to work, and we had to uninstall the program using its uninstaller rather than our PC's Control Panel. The Web link in the right-hand window of the practice panel led to a "coming soon" page littered with typos. Equations repeated more often than we'd like. We wish each game had an end point and displayed correct answers when you answered wrong. Still, the varying levels make Math Compass a decent pick for elementary through middle-school students.
Publisher's description
From Math Compass :Math Compass teaches general math through flash-card style practice with flexible settings to accommodate students at any level. It includes 4 games (Missing Number, Missing Operation, Time Trial and Head-to-Head), short tutorials for each operation, a real time report that can be output to an html file, a printable worksheet generator, a test mode that allows teachers/parents to pre-program the drill settings.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.3 stars out of 9 votes
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26 out of 34 people found this review helpful
Version: Math Compass 6.1
"Great Alternative To Old Fashion Flash Cards!"
Pros: Very solid little program.
Gives young students a reliable way to learn basic math skills on the computer.
Simply made - nothing fancy - but, very effective!
Cons: Every once and a while it will throw out a problem that is somewhat above the child's grade level, but only occasionally!
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Math Compass 6.1
"Perfert for practicing basic math skills!"
Pros: You can use your numeric keypad to enter your answers instead of using your mouse to answer a multiple choice like question... the games aren't too bad... I like the Time Trial one.. you can definitely see if you're improving through that. The program could also use an options dialoge for basic things like turning off the sound, images or what the default settings (difficulty/operation) should be when you load it. I've been looking for a program that helped me with basic math and I think I've finally found it.
Cons: I'm not too sure that beginners can do 154 / 22 -- but maybe that's just me. Also in the 'Head to Head' game.. it doesn't seem to allow ties to happen.. so even if both players get the same amount of questions right.. the player who started first will always win. But other than that nothing too trifling.. I still recommend this program very much.
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Version: Math Compass 6.1
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Version: Math Compass 6.1
Pros: No Download
Cons: Please remove this link. As stated above it sends you to godaddy.com with no option to download the file.
Summary: RUBBISH
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Version: Math Compass 6.1
"Download Page Error- Try this link"
Pros: Good little program for kids
Cons: Can't download from this site.
Summary: The link to the download site on this page does not work. Try this: http://www.brothersoft.com/math-compass-download-112713.html
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