Bailey's Book House

Seven activities help develop beginning literacy skills. Bailey and his friends inspire early readers to learn letters, words and word families, rhyming, prepositions, adjectives, and storytelling. Make your own greeting cards and storybooks too! A special highlighting technique encourages kids to follow words as they hear them read aloud.

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Send your children on an expedition to Brazil, Italy, Saudi Arabia and beyond. Watch them absorb facts about world cultures while they search for Carmen and her wily gang, who are stealing world treasures such as the Great Barrier Reef from Australia. Specially designed for younger children ages 5 to 8, this game features new activities kids will love. Children develop memory and matching skills, gain familiarity with maps and symbols, and learn to piece together clues to solve a mystery. So come on–we need your child's help to catch Carmen! Play along with Zack, Ivy and The Chief from the Emmy Award winning TV series. Learn about different countries as you explore the world.

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Your mission is to stop Carmen Sandiego and her diabolical Babble-on Machine from destroying the English language! You must successfully complete twelve missions that require you to solve over sixty skill-building activities. Practice mode features thousands of exercises that develop spelling, grammar and vocabulary proficiency. This adventure motivates kids to learn essential language skills.

ClueFinders Search & Solve Adventures

The magic of Dr. Seuss's popular books comes to life in this fun-filled introduction to the ABCs of reading. Click on a noun and see its picture. Click on a verb to see an action. It's easy for kids to replay a favorite part, skip ahead and learn more than 600 different words while they play. Introduce your child to Dr. Seuss's wondrous world today.

(Educational Game)

Kids build essential Kindergarten skills and get a head start on 1st Grade with the help of fun animal friends, music, and animation! Master key skills in Math, Reading, Science, Spelling, and more!

Kids Learn: Pre-Reading, Reading Comprehension, Rhyming & Phonics, Vocabulary & Spelling, Music, Visual Arts, Science, Numbers & Counting, Addition & Subtraction, Comparing & Contrasting, Critical Thinking

JumpStart 1st Grade Reading

Kids build essential 1st Grade skills and get a head start on 2nd Grade with the help of fun animal friends, music, and animation! Master key skills in Math, Reading, Science, Spelling, and more!

Kids Learn: Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Spelling, Life Science, Earth Science, Money, Numbers & Counting, Addition & Subtractiom, Shapes & Forms, Critical Thinking

The adventure starts in a creaky elevator hidden in the schoolhouse wall. Follow CJ the Frog and his sidekick Edison on a journey into their secret clubhouse. Use your math, science, grammar, and other skills to solve the many challenges found in 22 interactive games.

Kids Learn: Writing, Parts of Speech, Complex Vowels, "Carry Over" Addition, Borrow" Subtraction, Simple Multiplication, U.S. Geography, Musical Scales, Social Science

Use your 3rd Grade problem-solving skills to outsmart the mischievous Polly! Pack extreme fun and exciting adventure into learning as you solve puzzles, unlock secret codes, and thwart Polly's time-meddling plan. Master skills in Math, Science, Reading, History, and more!

Kids Learn: Grammar, Spelling & Vocabulary, Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication & Division, Numbers & Values, Measurement, Earth Science, Life Science, Music, Visual Arts, History, Logic, Critical Thinking

Use your 4th Grade problem-solving skills to unearth the secrets of the lost treasure map! Pack extreme fun and exciting adventure into learning as you find clues in caves, unlock hidden tunnels, and solve the mystery. Master skills in Math, Geography, Grammar, Science, and more!

Kids Learn: Parts of Speech, Spelling & Vocabulary, Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication & Division, Prime Numbers, Fractions, & Decimals, Estimation, Science, Geography, Music, The Arts, History

Use your 5th Grade problem-solving skills to stop the villainous Dr. X from destroying the city! Pack extreme fun and exciting adventure into learning while you search out the clues, unlock secret codes, and expose the villain's menacing plan. Master over 25 skills in Math, Reading, History, Science, and more!

Skills Learn: Reading Comprehension, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, & Division, Geometry, Fractions, & Decimals, Environmental Science, Art History & Appreciation, U.S. History & Geography, Critical Thinking & Reference Skills

Use your 6th Grade problem-solving skills as you save the earth in this global mission quest! Pack extreme fun and exciting adventure into learning as you travel the globe, chart the stars, and put a stop to pollution. Master over 25 skills in Math, Reading, Social Studies, Science, and more!

Kids Learn: Reading Comprehension,Vocabulary, Spelling, & Grammar, Geometry, Fractions, & Decimals, Ratios & Percentages, Environmental Science, Biology & Life Science, Social Studies, Critical Thinking & Reference Skills

JumpStart Artist gives your child the tools to discover and explore the world of art. Kids create their own masterpieces using many exclusive design tools. By playing games, your child will discover famous artists, artworks, and art styles while learning the basic principles of art, including lines and shapes, primary and secondary colors, textures and patterns, symmetry, value, and other important art concepts.

JumpStart Study Helpers Math Booster
(Bilingual Instructions in English & Spanish)
"Import Your Own Problems!"

Turn Studying for Math Tests Into a Game! With JumpStart Study Helpers, your child simply enters his or her weekly math problems into the computer and starts playing. Arcade-style activities provide entertaining practice with the problems for improved test scores. Includes: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Decimals and Percentages as well as instructions in English and Spanish

JumpStart Study Helpers Spelling Bee
(Translations from English & Spanish)
"Import Your Own Words!"

How do you get your child to study for spelling tests? Make it into a game! With JumpStart Study Helpers your child simply enters his weekly spelling wordsinto the computer and starts playing.  With arcade-style activitiesplaying the games means your child is practicing the words and improving theirtest scores!

Knowledge Adventure

Through fun activities and songs JumpStart® Phonics Read & Rhyme encourages your children to become confident readers by introducing, teaching, and reinforcing the basic building blocks of reading. Step-By-Step Approach: Children master each new word and sound as they progress through engaging activities. Vocal Recognition & Feedback: Kids can record and hear their own voice played back. Practice Vowels & Blends: Match up the letters and the sounds they make. Read-Along Songs: Read and sing new words as you follow along with 24 toe-tapping karaoke songs. 8 Skill-Building Activities: Learn over 200 words plus the 42 sounds of the English language.

Kids Learn: Letter, Sound & Word Recognition, Word Building, Vocabulary Building, Spelling, Rhyming, Digraphs & Blends, Beginning & Ending Consonants, Long & Short Vowel Sounds

Leap to an early understanding of letters, numbers, shapes and colors in a colorful classroom bursting with songs and animation! Packed with more learning activities than most other educational programs, JumpStart® Preschool has 10 irresistible interactive puzzles, games and play areas.

JumpStart® helps toddlers explore fundamental concepts from numbers and letters to colors and shapes, matching, pre-reading, pre-math, and much more! It builds confidence and curiosity through discovery. Experts have identified seven learning styles--some kids respond best to songs, some to pictures, and others to words and rhymes. Because kids learn in so many ways, JumpStart® uses all seven learning styles.

Designed specifically for kids, JumpStart Typing combines our award-winning learning system with exciting game play to make learning to type fun and easy. Children become accomplished typists while being entertained and engaged in four extreme sporting events including rock climbing, skateboarding, soccer and snowboarding.

Kid Pix 4 Deluxe

Kid Pix® Deluxe 4 is the ultimate creative playground! Create dynamic works of art using a variety of virtual media — from oil paints and collage to rainbows, trees and more!

Creativity Software, Art Software

Living Books Harry and the Haunted House

MAC OS 7, 8, 9

The intergalactic carnival has arrived on planet Omega. Here's your chance to go for the grand prize and win the championship obstacle race. Check out the cosmic fairgrounds and try your hand at flinging pies,slinging space balls,and encountering some kooky animals along the way. It's a carnival quest so get ready, set, and start clicking! Math Blaster's® unique game-based programs add fun to learning. It's no wonder teachers choose Blaster learning software to enhance skill building in the classroom, and parents know it as the software their kids will play and enjoy.

Skills Covered: Addition and subtraction, Multiplication, Fractions, Number patterns, Read and analyze charts, Sort complex sets, Problem solving and logic

Team up with Blaster and G.C. to exterminate Dr. Zero's beastly computer bugs! Go straight to the heart of the galactic network, where you'll crack a code in the circuits, rewire them for sound, and navigate through the motherboard maze. It's a megabyte of fun as you build a trap to capture the evil doctor and avert disaster. Get ready, set, and start clicking! Math Blaster's® unique game-based programs add fun to learning. It's no wonder teachers choose Blaster learning software to enhance skill building in the classroom, and parents know it as the software their kids will play and enjoy.

Skills Covered: Multiplication and division, Fractions, decimals and percentages, Estimation and rounding numbers, Identify equivalents, Measurement, Read graphs and tables, Geometric figures, congruency, symmetry, Problem solving and logic

GC, Max, and Spot have crash landed their ship, and it's up to you to help them get off the planet. Journey into a forbidding crater, solving puzzles to collect pieces of the shattered Medallion of Prosperity as you go. You must take the reassembled medallion to the Terrible Monkey King. But can you outwit his traps and claim your reward?
Skills Covered: Solve equations with two or three operands, Use estimation to find answers in a range, Compute fractions with common denominators, Add fractions with uncommon denominators, Understand and use decimals and percents, Identify and apply patterns

The world is losing math knowledge by the second, and all signs point to evil Dr. Dabble! Help Rave get to the root of this dastardly plot! You've got to outsmart the arch-villain and his Electrochemical Math Magnet. Collect fuses and power gems as you make your way through his treacherous and mysterious mansion, and restore math to the world!
Skills Covered: Computation using decimals, integers and rational numbers, Solving word problems, Ratios, proportions, and percents, Translating mathematical expressions, Applying order of operations, Creating equations, Graphing, Manipulating positive and negative numbers, Estimation, Logical thinking

Hit the road with your cool new band and discover how much math plays a part in everyday life! Build key math skills as you manage money, buy food, use maps and more to help your band climb the charts. With Math for the Real World you can master all the math skills you need to succeed in real life!

Students learn about multiplication and division of whole numbers and decimals, number line concepts, 3D shapes and their properties, and money transactions. In four activities, students recover hidden treasures, deliver essential supplies to a distant planet, and examine 2D shapes and 3D solids. Special features include the ability to print creations made in Dr. Gee's 3D lab and strong support of NCTM standards.

Math Software, Problem Solving, Inductive & Deductive Reasoning, Estimation & Rounding, 3D Geometry & Spatial Thinking Skills, 1- to 4-Digit Addition & Subtraction, 1- to 3-Digit Multiplication & Division, Money Transactions, Whole Numbers, Fractions & Decimals on a Number Line

Mighty Math Carnival Countdown teaches kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade students the concepts, facts, and thinking skills necessary to build math confidence and develop a strong, lasting understanding of math! Entertaining activities teach addition and subtraction, place value, sorting and classifying, logic and problem solving, equalities and inequalities, basic geometry, and early multiplication and division. Learning and understanding math is fun with Carnival Countdown!

Math Software, Problem Solving & Logic, Place Value, Addition & Subtraction, Sorting & Classification, Early Multiplication & Division

Visit the math metropolis where four friendly Number Heroes host exciting activities that promote investigation and experimentation. Students master fractions, multiplication, division, 2D geometry, and probability as they create dazzling fireworks displays, test their wits at a math game show, solve geometric challenges, and graph data. Special features include strong support of NCTM standards and along with Calculating Crew, cover all major topics in 3rd-6th grade math curriculums.

Math Software, Problem Solving, Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication & Division, Fractions, Geometry, Interpret Graphs & Charts, Patterns & Logic, Probability

Mighty Math Zoo Zillions teaches kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade students the concepts, facts, and thinking skills necessary to build math confidence and develop a strong, lasting understanding of math! Innovative activities teach number line concepts, addition and subtraction, counting money and making change, problem-solving skills, and early three-dimensional geometry. Learning and understanding math is fun with the entertaining creatures of Zoo Zillions!

Math Software, Problem Solving & Reasoning, Number Line Concepts & Counting, Counting Money & Making Change, Addition & Subtraction Facts, Story Problems, Early 3D Geometry

Millie's Math House

Through seven fun-filled activities that feel like play, your child will learn about numbers, counting, addition, subtraction, patterns, problem solving, size, geometric shapes, and more. Count critters, build mouse houses, create crazy-looking bugs, make jellybean cookies for Harley the Horse, and find just the right shoes for Little, Middle, and Big!

MindTwister Math

Oregon Trail 5th Edition

Dive into an ocean of reading fun with G.C. and Max Blaster! Discover an undersea world of adventure as you learn about letters, sounds, spelling, phonics, stories, and more!

The Mumbles have invaded Earth and hidden all the books! Use your reading skills to help Blaster, GC and Mel find the clues they need to recover the missing books.

Six of Bizarroville's leading citizens have vanished into thin air, and all the evidence points to Dr. Dabble! Use your reading comprehension skills to follow the trail of letters, journals and clues to unravel the mystery!

Join Reader Rabbit and Sam the Lion on their fun-filled adventure in search of the Land Where the Lions Roam Free! Along the way, you will meet lions of all kinds—dandelions, a sea lion, and even a lionfish! While immersed in this enchanting story, build essential reading and comprehension skills by playing fun phonics activities and reading delightful interactive storybooks.

Phonics Software, Spelling Software, Vocabulary Software, Reading Software, Creative Writing Software

Sammy's Science House

In five fascinating activities students build early science skills and practice important scientific processes. Students also expand their science vocabulary as they learn about plants, animals, seasons, and weather. Special features include graphical and spoken instructions, questions, and feedback, which allow students to work independently and enhance comprehension, and a Field Notebook from which students can print creations and pages.

Join Blasternaut, Galactic Commander, and Spot on an exciting adventure! The trio are vacationing on Planet Islandia when suddenly their plans are interrupted. Mumblers from the planet Nonsense are taking books from the planet's treasury. Help the Blasterpals explore the islands and navigate through various spelling challenges to find clues that will reveal the identity of the Mumbler who has taken the book!

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In five fascinating activities students build early science skills and practice important scientific processes. Students also expand their science vocabulary as they learn about plants, animals, seasons, and weather. Special features include graphical and spoken instructions, questions, and feedback, which allow students to work independently and enhance comprehension, and a Field Notebook from which students can print creations and pages!

Subjects Covered: History Software, Geography Software

Eight detective mysteries challenge students’ social studies knowledge.
Carmen returns! Students build their world geography and problem-solving skills while tackling challenging missions, solving mind-bending puzzles, and uncovering stolen treasures. Through rich graphics, vivid settings, and interactive content, students are immersed into world cultures and learn essential geography facts. The Teacher Resource CD includes a teacher guide and user guide as well as off-computer activities to increase accountability and extend topics introduced in the software.

Zoombinis Logical Journey

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An Epic Adventure of Math and Logic. Travel to a remarkable new world and treat your brain to an outlandishly fun and challenging adventure. Diabolical Bloats have seized Zoombini Isle, and it will take a clever mind to help the Zoombinis navigate their way to safety. Standing between you and your destination are twelve perilous puzzles, with four levels of difficulty each. But beware, this is no ordinary challenge. Zoombinis’ captivating gameplay features math without numbers. Solving Zoombinis puzzles uses the process of mathematical thinking. This process includes organizing information, reasoning with evidence, and testing systematically. Dive into the exciting and wacky world of the Zoombinis and develop information-age logic skills used in writing computer programs, organizing spreadsheet data, and searching for information on computer networks.

Zoombinis Mountain Rescue

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The Math and Logic Odyssey Continues! Lead a Daring rescue in a Puzzle-Packed Heroic Mission!Settled in their new homeland, Zoombinis are again enjoying peaceful, productive prosperity. Suddenly, serenity is shattered when a band of Zoombinis disappears inside a mysterious mountain. Dauntless rescue parties are dispatched. Develop foundational and advanced math and logic skills while exploring menacing puzzle-packed mountain passageways. Each perilous puzzle you solve leads to another, more difficult challenge. Each mission is a new game!