Math Software Recommended Titles

The following titles have been previewed by the Math Curriculum and Educational Technology departments, as well as some area Math coaches. The elementary titles correlate with the Everyday Math program. If you have questions about the instructional use of these programs, please contact the Math Curriculum department or your Educational Technology Specialist.

Elementary titles

The Cruncher
Knowledge Adventure
Win/Mac
3-12

The Cruncher is the student- and teacher-friendly spreadsheet featuring six easy-to-follow tutorials and 20 new cross-curricular learning projects. Students learn how to use spreadsheets across all areas of the curriculum as they organize, chart and evaluate all kinds of information.

Curriculum Skills:

* Develop creative and open-ended problem-solving skills
* Use high-level thinking to analyze and synthesize information
* Draw correlations between math and real-world problem solving
* Use inductive and deductive reasoning

KEY FEATURES:

* SPREADSHEET – Full-featured, easy-to-use spreadsheet
* Internet links within any spreadsheet cell for immediate access to the World Wide Web
* Library of over 300 stickers and sounds to liven up your spreadsheets—or import your own sounds and pictures
* Easy importing of Microsoft Excel® or ClarisWorks® files (SYLK format)

The Graph Club 2.0
Tom Snyder
Win/Mac
K-4

The Graph Club is an innovative, easy-to-use tool for creating, exploring, interpreting, and printing graphs. The program's friendly, hands-on environment helps young students make the transition from graphing with manipulatives to graphing in the abstract. As students create and compare up to five different graph types, they develop essential graphing skills.

Mathosaurus I
Micrograms
Win/Mac
K-1

Count items to 10 or 20. Learn numbers and number words. Compare sets, create matching sets, and sequence by 1's, 2's, 5'2, and 10's. Select English or Spanish for all directions and comments.

Math Arena
Sunburst
Win/Mac
4-7

Students are challenged to improve math skills, and develop an ability to use math in practical situations in 20 action-packed activities that focus on:
* visual thinking
* numeration and operations
* estimation and prediction
* money sense
* data representation
* geometry concepts

Students can select two levels of difficulty in a timed or untimed learning environment. Students compete individually, in small groups, or on teams. In this positive, outcome-oriented program, your students will think on their mathematical feet with unique visual opportunities to:
* engage in probability problems
* predict number sequences
* perform visual transformations
* find coordinates on a grid
* add and subtract percentages
* create mirror reflections
* learn about the degrees of a circle
* construct Venn diagrams
* estimate and keep tallies in their head
* perfect operations skills
* practice checking for mistakes

Mighty Math Calculating Crew
Edmark/Riverdeep
Win/Mac
3-6

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.

Mighty Math Carnival Countdown
Edmark/Riverdeep
Win/Mac
K-2

With five playful activities,Mighty Math Carnival Countdown invites young students to explore and grasp basic math concepts and problem-solving skills. Students help Annie the Armadillo with Pattern Block brainteasers, count bubbles with the Bubble Band,weigh laughs in the Giggle Factory, and more.
* Five engaging activities with lovable characters
* Virtual Manipulatives® help students make the connection between concrete and abstract concepts
* Combined with Mighty Math Zoo Zillions, covers all major topics in the K-2 grade math curriculum

Mighty Math Number Heros
Edmark/Riverdeep
Win/Mac
3-6

Visit a math metropolis where friendly Number Heroes host four exciting activities that encourage students to learn and master skills in fractions, multiplication, division, 2D geometry, and more. Also develops investigation and experimentation abilities.
* Combined with Mighty Math Calculating Crew, both cover all major topics in the grades 3-6 math curriculum
* Students test their wits in math and logic in challenging games

Mighty Math Zoo Zillions
Edmark/Riverdeep
Win/Mac
K-2

Basic math skills practice for early learners - Ryan the Lion, the Otter Twins, and other fun animal friends guide students through five activities that introduce addition, subtraction, story problems, number facts, 3D shapes, counting money, and making change.
* Offers over 100 math topics and thousands of problems
* Question & Answer and Explore & Discover modes provide opportunities for independent and structured learning
* Grow Slides automatically adjust content to advance learning as students progress

Millie’s Math House
Edmark/Riverdeep
Win/Mac
K-2

Designed by early learning experts, Millie's Math House introduces and builds fundamental early math skills while engaging young students with seven funfilled activities. Students explore numbers, shapes, sizes, quantities, patterns, sequencing, addition, and subtraction. By counting critters, making jellybean cookies, and creating colorful caterpillars, students learn how to associate numbers with quantities, shapes with names, and much more.
* Targets fundamental, early learning math skills
* Immediate and positive feedback enhances learning, rewards persistence, and guides students to success
* Explore & Discover and Question & Answer modes provide opportunities for independent and structured learning
* Spoken and graphical instructions allow pre-readers and early readers to explore the program independently.

Ten Tricky Tiles
Sunburst
Win/Mac
2-6

Students develop their arithmetic and logic skills with three levels of activities that involve solving sets of numbers sentences. Based on activities by Marcy Cook. Students develop their arithmetic and logic skills with three levels of activities that involve:
* Solving sets of number sentences
* Improve operation skill
* Develop number sense
* Deductive reasoning

Tessellation Exploration
Tom Snyder
Win/Mac
4-8

This powerful manipulative tool helps students understand geometric principles as they experiment with tessellations. Students choose a basic shape, then explore what happens when they apply geometric transformations-slides, turns, flips, and glides-to create a tessellation. They can then watch as their creation animates on the screen, reinforcing transformational geometry concepts. The program also includes step-by-step activities that help students create tessellations of increasing complexity.

Secondary titles

Building Perspective
Sunburst
Win/Mac
4-12

Develop spatial perception and visual reasoning skills with this award-winning program that will sharpen your students’ problem-solving abilities. Students compare and contrast four side views of buildings to construct a top view of 3x3, 4x4 or 5x5 city blocks with buildings of different heights. Students encounter visual puzzles that they solve by extrapolating information from four side views and construct a hypothesis of the top view. They become logical and systematic thinkers when they deal with the advanced problems on the program that may have incomplete or seemingly conflicting information. On-screen help can be easily accessed providing students with guidance as they need it. A Teacher’s Guide provides appropriate pre-teaching materials and extension activities. Building Perspective promotes higher order thinking skills. Your students establish deductive reasoning, visual memory, spatial perception and sequencing skills as they solve visual problems of increasing difficulty. They develop the rational "eye" needed for high performance in art, design, geometry and trigonometry. Three levels of play make this game a fun challenge.

Equation Tile Teaser
Sunburst
Win/Mac
6-9

Students develop logical thinking and pre-algebra skills with three challenging problem-solving activities. Presented with a set of number equations with 10 missing spots, students select numbers 0 through 9 exactly once to correctly satisfy the equation set. While it is easy to choose one number to make one sentence true, it becomes more difficult to create a correct numerical arrangement using all 10 digits. An on-screen calculator and a Hint button are available for assistance. Students progress from activities that develop skills in:
* Basic computation
* Mixed operations
* Solving early algebra problems
* Logical thinking
* Deductive reasoning

Students begin the program solving randomly generated problem sets involving mixed operations. They are given three horizontally oriented equations to solve. Some of these are balance equations with an operation in the solution! In the second activity, students solve intersecting equations in a mathematical crossword puzzle. With 10 spots to fill, students maneuver within a 7x7 grid that contains 4 horizontal and 4 vertical equations. In the third activity students develop pre-algebra skills as they solve sets of equations containing two variables. Students must assign a single digit value to the variables and solve the set of equations based on their selection of these two variables.

Geometer's Sketchpad
Key Curriculum Press
Win/Mac
5-12

With a scope that spans the mathematics curriculum from middle school to college, The Geometer's Sketchpad brings a powerful dimension to the study of mathematics. Sketchpad™ is a dynamic construction and exploration tool that enables students to explore and understand mathematics in ways that are simply not possible with traditional tools—or with other mathematics software programs. With Sketchpad, students can construct an object and then explore its mathematical properties by dragging the object with the mouse. All mathematical relationships are preserved, allowing students to examine an entire set of similar cases in a matter of seconds, leading them by natural course to generalizations. Sketchpad encourages a process of discovery in which students first visualize and analyze a problem, and then make conjectures before attempting a proof. Also available in Spanish.

Green Globs and Graphing Equations
Sunburst
Win/Mac
9-12

In Green Globs and Graphing Equations, students explore the connections between graphs and symbolic equations in a colorful interactive learning environment. Here they examine lines, circles, ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas and other graphs, visually experiencing the effect on a graph’s shape and position as they alter the equation that supports it. Students continue their learning with a series of fun, competitive games that build problem-solving strategies as they write equations to uncover hidden graphs and "explode" points on a co-ordinate grid. This math program creates an solid conceptual foundation in algebra, trigonometry and graphing concepts in your students. Math teachers praise this program because it encourages students to think creatively about graphing equations.

Larson’s Algebra
Meridian
Win/Mac
8-12

Larson's Algebra 1 consists of 15 modules. Each module contains up to ten topics. Each topic contains skill-building and problem-solving tutorials, practice, and assessment. The Pre-Test can assess each student's readiness for a module. An instructor can choose to use the results of the Pre-Test to adjust the students' progress through the topics. See It is an interactive training video that teaches a particular math skill using multiple presentations. A See It can be paused, scrolled, and replayed. Try It - In Skill Building, students complete three problems from a pool of 30. In Problem Solving, students complete two problems from a pool of 20. Zap It - In Skill Building, students complete 10 problems from a pool of 30. In Problem Solving, students complete five problems from a pool of 15. Teachers can set the percentage of problems that must be answered correctly. In Career students are required to answer five real-life application problems. A unique career is featured in each module. In certification students are required to answer 10 questions on the skill-building and problem-solving topics assigned in the module. Students can print a certificate after completion. The Standardized Test contains at least 20 problems that review previously completed modules.

Tessellation Exploration
Tom Snyder
Win/Mac
4-8

Thinkin’ Things Collection 1: Toony the Loon’s Lagoon
Riverdeep
Win/Mac
K-3

Early learners develop visual, spatial, logical, and essential critical-thinking skills Thinkin' Things Collection 1 combines with Toony the Loon's Lagoon to present six playful activities that focus on memory development, logic, visual and spatial thinking, musical memory, and problem solving. Single Switch option increases accessibility for special needs students.

KEY FEATURES:

* Six playful activities with engaging animated characters
* Question & Answer and Explore & Discover modes provide opportunity for independent and structured learning
* Grow Slides automatically adjust to each student's learning level, advancing in difficulty level as the student successfully solves a problem

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES:

* Builds memory, logic, musical, spatial, and kinesthetic thinking skills
* Enhances observation and perception abilities
* Introduces the relationship between scientific exploration and creativity

Thinkin’ Things Collection 2: Frippletown Benders
Riverdeep
Win/Mac
2-5

Thinkin' Things Frippletown offers age-appropriate activities that allow students to explore and practice various thinking strategies, including analyzing attributes, using logic, working backwards, identifying multiple solutions, and practicing creativity. By practicing these skills, students will learn to think clearly, analytically, and independently. Special Features include grow slides that automatically advance as students succeed and graphical and spoken instruction, questions, and feedback that empower students to work with little assistance.

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES:

* Problem Solving
* Deductive Reasoning
* Map Reading & Navigation
* Number Patterns & Sequences
* Testing of Hypotheses
* Prediction of Outcomes
* Rule Discrimination
* Visual Creativity

Thinkin’ Things Collection 3: Galactic Brain Benders
Riverdeep
Win/Mac
3-8

Elementary learners develop higher-level thinking skills to become successful problem solvers. Thinkin' Things Collection 3 combines with Galactic Brain Benders to teach higher level thinking skills and encourage creativity. In five challenging, animated activities, students utilize deductive and inductive reasoning, and explore simple physics concepts including friction, gravity, motion, and inertia.

KEY FEATURES:

* Five challenging animated activities
* Question & Answer and Explore & Discover modes provide opportunity for independent and structured learning
* Grow Slides automatically adjust to each student's learning level, advancing in difficulty level as each student successfully solves a problem

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES:

* Introduces and reinforces deductive and inductive reasoning, logic, observation, visual analysis, creativity, basic elements of computer programming, and problem solving
* Strengthens pattern and sequence recognition
* Provides practice in finding multiple solutions to a problem

I Spy School Days
Scholastic
Win/Mac
K-4

Inspired by the popular book series, text by Jean Marzollo and photographs by Walter Wick, these CD-ROM's offer a unique collection of visually-rich, multi-layered puzzles and riddles that excite and fascinate your students as they develop critical thinking skills.

I SPY Treasure Hunt
Scholastic
Win/Mac
1-5

This rollicking collection of three separate treasure hunts will hold your child spellbound with puzzles, riddles, maps, and music. Winner of more than thirty awards, including three Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Awards, the best-selling I SPY CD-ROM series continues to thrill and challenge children who love puzzles, clues, and surprise endings.

Logical Journey of the Zoombinis
Sunburst
Win/Mac
3-8

Strengthen essential reasoning and mathematical communication skills in this unique and popular program where students unravel and solve 12 different math puzzles. Students are continuously challenged with four levels of difficulty as they:
* understand logical relationships by grouping and comparing information
* develop strategic thinking by linking information
* stay organized by graphing and mapping information
* begin to think algebraically by sorting, comparing, and associating variables
* search for patterns and functions as a means to generalize and understand the logic of math
* think scientifically by observing, relating, inferring, categorizing, and applying information
* develop mathematical literacy by using and applying the precise language of mathematics
* engage in cooperative learning by listening, writing, and speaking to share and record mathematical ideas and insights
You can track students’ progress and receive printable reports in this fun and compelling program that supports NCTM standards.

Zoombinis Mountain Rescue
Sunburst
Win/Mac
3-8

In this new adventure, students create and move teams of Zoombinis through nine puzzle terrains to tackle mathematical thinking skills. With three levels of difficulty, all students will find this program challenging! Zoombinis Mountain Rescue's innovative approach to teaching essential mathematical and logical thinking skills without numbers makes it an appropriate and effective program in our information age of computer programming and data organizing. Track your students’ progress through each NCTM standards-based activity as they:
* understand logical relationships by grouping and comparing information
* develop strategic thinking by linking information
* stay organized by graphing and mapping information
* begin to think algebraically by sorting, comparing, and associating variables
* use functions by searching for generalized patterns, seeing relationships, and understanding the logic of math
* think scientifically by observing, relating, inferring, categorizing, and applying information
* use probability by developing and evaluating inferences and predictions that are based on data
* engage in cooperative learning by listening, writing, and speaking to share and record mathematical ideas and insights
You can track students’ progress and receive printable reports in this fun and compelling program that supports NCTM standards.

Pricing

The following is DPS pricing for our currently recommended math software made available from Educational Resources. These prices reflect a discount from their current catalog. For more information or to answer questions, contact Andre Johnson at ER at 800-624-2926 Ext. 3377. Of course you are free to purchase software from any vendor of your choosing.

Date:January 1, 2005

Product	Description	Qty	Unit Price
AJ25524	CRUNCHER 2 SCH 2	1	$58.46
AJ26243	CRUNCHER 2 LAB 5	1	$144.86
AJ69750	CRUNCHER 2 UNL NETWORK	1	$809.96
AJ96622	GRAPH CLUB SCH 2	1	$71.10
AJ55440	GRAPH CLUB LAB 5	1	$225.00
AJ46080	GRAPH CLUB SITE 30	1	$900.00
AJ49584	MATHOSAURUS 1 Sch	1	$37.00
AJ85001	MATHOSAURUS 1 LAB 5	1	$95.00
AJ73078	MATHOSAURUS 1 NET/SITE WIN (PLEASE CALL FOR MAC #)	1	$694.95
AJT04492	MATH ARENA SCH	1	$99.95
AJT04495	MATH ARENA LAB 10	1	$99.95
AJT04498	MATH ARENA NETWORK	1	$649.95
AJ42968	MIGHTY MATH CALCULATING SCH 2	1	$43.16
AJ52856	MIGHTY MATH CALCULATING LAB 6	1	$116.96
AJ79612	MIGHTY MATH CALCULATING NW 50	1	$699.00
AJ62463	MIGHTY MATH CARNIVAL SCH 2	1	$39.56
AJ65782	MIGHTY MATH CARNIVAL LAB 6	1	$116.06
AJ14239	MIGHTY MATH CARNIVAL NW 50	1	$699.00
AJ18069	MIGHTY MATH NUMBER HEROS SCH 2	1	$39.56
AJ24091	MIGHTY MATH NUMBER HEROS LAB 6	1	$116.06
AJ64692	MIGHTY MATH NUMBER HEROS NW 50	1	$699.00
AJ72114	MIGHTY MATH ZOO ZILLIONS SCH 2	1	$39.56
AJ93813	MIGHTY MATH ZOO ZILLIONS LAB 6	1	$116.06
AJ14564	MIGHTY MATH ZOO ZILLIONS NW 50	1	$699.00
AJ60031	MILLIES MATH HOUSE SCH 2	1	$39.56
AJ60041	MILLIES MATH HOUSE LAB 6	1	$116.06
AJ77354	MILLIES MATH HOUSE NW 50	1	$699.00
AJT04467	TEN TRICKY TILES SCH	1	$89.95
AJT04669	TEN TRICKY TILES LAB 10	1	$89.95
AJT04671	TEN TRICKY TILES NETWORK	1	$649.95
AJ66259	TESSELLATION EXPLORATION Sch	1	$69.00
AJ38253	TESSELLATION EXPLORATION - Lab 5	1	$210.00
AJ23946	TESSELLATION EXPLORATION UNLIMITED SITE	1	$1,200.00
AJT04673	EQUATION TILE TEASERS SCH	1	$99.95
AJT04674	EQUATION TILE TEASERS LAB 10	1	$99.95
AJT04676	EQUATION TILE TEASERS NETWORK	1	$649.95
AJT03613	BUILDING PERSPECTIVE SCH	1	$99.95
AJT03615	BUILDING PERSPECTIVE LAB 10	1	$99.95
AJT03618	BUILDING PERSPECTIVE NETWORK	1	$649.95
AJT04348	GREEN GLOBS GRAPHING SCH	1	$109.95
AJT04350	GREEN GLOBS GRAPHING LAB 10	1	$109.95
AJT04353	GREEN GLOBS GRAPHING NETWORK	1	$649.95
AJ61262	THINKIN THINGS 3: GALACTIC BRAIN BENDERS SCH2	1	$43.00
AJ70939	THINKIN THINGS 3: GALACTIC BRAIN BENDERS LAB 6	1	$128.00
AJ46315	THINKIN THINGS 3: GALACTIC BRAIN BENDERS NW	1	$699.00
AJ36806	THINKIN THINGS 2 SCH2	1	$43.00
AJ43404	THINKIN THINGS 2 LAB 6	1	$128.00
AJ35906	THINKIN THINGS 2 NW 50	1	$699.00
AJT03635	LOGICAL JOURNEY OF THE ZOOMBINIS SCH2	1	$43.00
AJT03636	LOGICAL JOURNEY OF THE ZOOMBINIS LAB 6	1	$125.00
AJT06804	LOGICAL JOURNEY OF THE ZOOMBINIS SITE 25	1	$525.00
AJT06805	LOGICAL JOURNEY OF THE ZOOMBINIS NW 50	1	$550.00
AJT06794	ZOOMBINIS MOUNTAIN RESCUE SCH2	1	$43.00
AJT06795	ZOOMBINIS MOUNTAIN RESCUE LAB 6	1	$125.00
AJT06796	ZOOMBINIS MOUNTAIN RESCUE SITE 25	1	$525.00
AJ96010	I SPY SCHOOL DAYS SCH	1	$35.00
AJ25359	I SPY SCHOOL DAYS LAB 5	1	$145.00
AJ43013	I SPY SCHOOL DAYS LAB 10	1	$240.00
AJ79970	I SPY SCHOOL DAYS LAB 30	1	$350.00
AJ18609	I SPY SCHOOL DAYS UNLIMITED SITE	1	$500.00
AJ90663	I SPY TREASURE HUNT SCH	1	$35.00
AJ45368	I SPY TREASURE HUNT LAB 5	1	$145.00
AJ60251	I SPY TREASURE HUNT LAB 10	1	$240.00
AJ76727	I SPY TREASURE HUNT LAB 30	1	$350.00
AJ90708	I SPY TREASURE HUNT UNLIMITED SITE	1	$500.00

The following titles are not available from Educational Resources. Please contact the vendor directly for pricing.

Title	Publisher	Contact
Geometer's Sketchpad	Key Curriculum Press	800-338-7638 (Sales Inquiries)
Larson's Algebra	Meridian Creative Group	Bill or Jennifer Hallock - 720-479-5933