Mathosaurus I with Easy Track

Item Description:

Mathosaurus I contains Math Readiness Skills for Grades Pre K to 1. Mathosaurus I is published by Micrograms Software and has been awarded the 2004 Teachers' Choice Award For the Family by Learning Magazine.

Mathosaurus I is English/Spanish bi-lingual. When Spanish is selected in the Options menu, the dinosaurs speak in Spanish, and all screen directions are in Spanish.

Activity 1 finds Sally needing help counting bubbles. Sally's friends, Toni, Orlando, and Dawn, are nearby watching. When students have trouble helping Sally, Orlando enthusiastically provides assistance. Options are used to set the activity for up to 5, 10, or 20 bubbles. Answers can be selected either from numerals or number words. Problems are presented in groups of 10, and the record keeping system keeps track of student performance.

In Activity 2 students help Mr. Freeze serve scoops of ice cream to Molly and Spike. When matching sets, students count the number of scoops of ice cream that Spike has, and serve Molly the same number of scoops. When creating sets, children listen to the directions from Mr. Freeze, and serve a specified number of scoops to Molly or Spike. The record keeping system tracks student performance

Activity 3 gives practice in comparing sets. Lefty and Big Red each have a group of balloons. Larry wants to know "Who has more?" or "Who has less?" Teachers can select groups of up to 5 or up to 10 ballons to be compared. Three comparisons or five comparisons can be presented before Lefty and Big Red float away.

Each program activity features a custom Reward Certificate which can be given to a student to take home to show Mom or Dad. The teacher may sign the certificate or have a Mathosaurus character do so

In Activity 4 students work to master counting by steps. They fill in the number missing from the center egg in a sequence of numbers stepped by 1's, 2's, 5's, or 10's. Numbers can be in a range from 1 to 20 or from 1 to 100. Each correct answer results in a crack in the center egg. Five correct answers hatches a baby dinosaur or two. Students can decide which of the babies is their favorite hatchling.

A detailed look at student work is available on the Summary page. Scores are provided in nine categories over seven number ranges. Records show how each student has performed in his/her latest session, last five sessions, and cumulatively to date. Scores can be displayed as problems right over problems attempted, as a percentage, as a letter grade, or in a star chart. Stars earned correspond to a grading scale which can be adjusted by the teacher. Class totals also are recorded in all categories.

A wide variety of records are available to be printed and there is a printout selection box with which the teacher determines what kind of printout will be made

Math Readiness Skills Learned

Program Requirements for Windows: Windows Vista, XP, 2000, 98 running on PC's < 6 years old.

Program Requirements for Macintosh: Programs with Easy Track Mac OS 10.5.3 Leopard to OS 9 running on Macs < 6 years old, including Intel Core Duo machines with Rosetta.

Programs without Easy Track Mac OS 10.2.8 Classic to OS 8.6 running on PowerMacs or above

Using Windows 7, Vista, XP, and 2000
Micrograms products compatible with Easy Track run under all the Windows operating systems listed above. Network versions can be served off of Windows 2008, 2003, 2000, NT, and Novell (>3.x) servers; or they can be run from the local hard drives of individual workstations and/or stand-alone machines. We offer nothing, at present, designed for Cytrix, NComputing environments, other terminal servers, or the "CD tower" environment. We offer no web-based products

Using Macintosh
Micrograms products compatible with Easy Track run on OS 10 native and on Intel Core 2 Duo machines with Rosetta. This means OS 10.2 thru OS 10.6. Snow Leopard initially requires that Rosetta be downloaded free from Apple. Network Macintosh program versions can be served off of Windows 2008, 2003, 2000, and Novell servers with Macintosh partitions, as well as from Macintosh machines running OS 10 Server. They also can be run from the local hard drives of individual workstations and/or stand-alone machines. Micrograms programs run fine in hardwired Macintosh computer labs, and they run better with newer versions of AirPort than with old.

Easy Track Updates
Easy Track is designed to be easily updated from time to time. When new programs are released by Micrograms, Easy Track will be updated to accommodate them. Suggestions from users may be added to Easy Track, and if any issues are discovered regarding Easy Track's operation, updates can resolve the problems. So before you begin importing student names into the Easy Track management system, we strongly suggest you download Micrograms latest Easy Track update for free from www.micrograms.com. And, from time to time we suggest you revisit the update page of www.micrograms.com to keep your school up to date with the latest Easy Track version.

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