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Teaches coin recognition and math skills using U.S. and Canadian coins. The coins are scanned in to be highly recognizable.
The coins used in the program are photographically scanned in, so they appear very realistic (and recognizable).
There are three types of games.
First, a money recognition game where the child matches the coin to its amount, both the front and back of the coins are used.
The other two games have levels of difficulty that can be adjusted to the childs needs.
One game has the child match a group of coins to its amount (2 dimes and a nickel matched to 25 cents), the other game matches equivalent groups of coins (2 dimes and a nickel matched to 1 dime, 2 nickels and 5 pennies, for instance).
Context sensitive help is available for the boxes with coins in them which shows the cumulative values of each group of coins (but does not add them all up - that is left to the child).
When 10 matches are made, the child receives a ticket to a short animated movie. There are 10 different animated movies using techniques like clay-animation, full-motion video, stop-motion, and morphing. Sound effects and music are used throughout the program. |
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