Penny Panda's Sticker Store with Easy Track

Item Description:

Penny Panda’s Sticker Store teaches money for grades 1 to 4. Penny Panda’s Sticker Store is published by Micrograms Software and is available in different configurations to fir your needs.

Penny Panda provides lots of practice in counting money. Four main activities help children with counting a given amount, comparing amounts, presenting money to match a specific sum, and determining change accurately.

Flexible program options allow the teacher to select which coins and bills to include for practice. Have children remain at a specified level or have the program change levels automatically based on student performance.

With each correct answer, children earn money to spend at Penny Panda's Sticker Store. Visit Penny's store after each activity. Buy stickers when you have enough money. Penny has many popular stickers. Collect birds, cars, endangered animals, national flags, flowers, spiders, butterflies, insects, music and dance, dinosaurs, and sports stickers. Save up or trade for the most expensive stickers. Try to collect complete sets.

Selecting, purchasing, and collecting stickers are major motivational treats for students using Penny Panda's Sticker Store. As children work through Activities 1 - 4, they earn "money" for each first-try correct answer. After each activity, children may purchase stickers at Penny's store or save their earnings for future use. During each visit to her store, Penny displays 12 stickers she currently has in stock.

As stickers are purchased, each student's sticker collection will be mounted in his or her own personalized sticker album (which is saved cumulatively from session to session). The value of a collection increases as complete sticker sets are achieved. Sets of 11 different stickers are available in the following categories: birds, butterflies, cars, dinosaurs, flowers, insects, music and dance, spiders, and sports. Sets of 33 stickers are available in two categories: endangered animals and national flags. Also, the program presents a sticker trading option; and some stickers are available only through trade.

In Activity 1, Penny Panda presents an amount of money for the children to count. The correct answer may be selected by pressing the Space Bar to underline the answer and then pressing Enter or return. Students also may use the mouse to indicate the correct answer. For beginners needing entry level help, the value of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter is defined; and bacic single denomination coin counting practice is available within the program.

For Activity 2, Penny presents two sets of money. Set A and Set B are separated by a stalk of bamboo. The mouse or the Space bar and Enter or return are used to indicate which set of money is greater.

In Activity 3, students are provided with an assortment of coins and bills and asked to put a precise amount of money into a box on the screen. By using the mouse or keyboard to select various coins, children get excellent practice in "paying" a precise amount of money.

For Activity 4, children are challenged to count the amount of money which is pictured and then to visually subtract an amount "spent" in order to determine how much would be left. As in Activities 1 - 3, the teacher can control the level of difficulty by specifying which monitary denominations to include. Also, the teacher may have children remain at a particular difficulty level or advance independently based on a specified competency rate.

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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