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| 4.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.4 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.44 pounds | | Package Length:
| 5.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
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| Windows Vista / Windows XP / Windows 2000 | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Not a good learning toolJul 18, 2010
This software is not what I expected. I was looking for a little summer activity for my son. I found it to be way over his head and mine. A big portion of it was about artist, and some of the games were pointless. I stayed up late one night trying to figure out one of the answers to a crossword puzzle, google and an atlas couldn't even help me. I gave up, took the CD out of the computer and gave it away.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
You'll need GoogleSep 25, 2009
My daughter loves the 3rd grade and 4th grade disks, and begged for this one.
She has spent a lot of time playing with this game, so I'm glad that we bought it, but of the Jump Start nth grade series, it is by far the weakest. The biggest issue is the art history sections and crossword puzzles, full of painters that I've never heard of and trivia that seems largely irrelevant, over the head of most adults, let alone kids. There's no instructional material before the puzzles that introduces the kids to these painters, either; they're just expected to know it. I can tell that a lot of parents felt the same way, because whenever I googled to find an answer, I found that someone had already posed that exact, obscure question and gotten it answered online.
So maybe that's the point of this game. To teach your 5th grader-to-be about the power of online search. I suppose at that, it would be a success... but only if your child has the ability to access Google while playing, and/or if you the parent are willing to help with those puzzles.
We also had some trouble figuring out how to do the complex math problems, multiplying multiple digit by multiple digit numbers. Only after much trial and error did we finally realize you were intended to do the whole problem on the computer, showing each step and then add them together, rather than just enter the final answer, as you did with every previous level of difficulty. An example problem or more specific help would have saved us about 40 minutes of frustration.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Jumpstart always a winnerJul 06, 2008
While this was a little advanced for my kids at first (they just finished second and fourth grade) they BOTH enjoy the game, now, and are less intimidated by the advanced information. Kids learn fast! And since they were toddlers, I've been most happy with Jumpstart educational games above all other brands.
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