Timez Attack--an amazing resource for mastering multiplication tables
AJ has been struggling with not seeing the need to learn math, and therefore not wanting to do math. So we've been looking for creative ways to teach math facts to her. One of the resources we've found is so unusual and great that it deserves special mention: an unusually well-made RPG adventure math game called Timez Attack.
I'm so impressed by this program that I signed up for their affiliate program--something I don't do lightly.
Timez Attack is a video game with unusually exciting play and graphics. It plays like an role playing adventure game, where you direct your character through a 3-dimensional world. In order to open doors and fight monsters, you have to know your times tables.
Better yet, the way the game is set up actually helps to teach the times tables in a very visual, logical way. For example, early in the game a door labeled 2 x 8 has a graphic of two groups of 8 next to it. Little creatures jump out of the wall, each of them worth 8 points toward getting the door open. The program keeps a running count of your total as you catch the animals and they turn into balls worth 8 points each . . . 8, 16. Then you have to throw the correct number of balls (each worth 8) at the door to open it.
Behind the door is a monster who has multiplication problems appear on his belly. You deal him blows by solving the math problems until you beat him. If you get too close to him or take too long to type in the correct answer, he deals you a blow, which damages your character.
The graphics and game play are reminiscent of a PlayStation, GameCube or Wii type of RPG game, but you play it directly on your computer (there are downloads for either Mac or PC).
My math hater is suddenly very enthusiastic about learning her times tables. She's even happy to watch someone else play the game, and help by shouting out the answers as the math problems appear.
The game is so exciting that even I enjoy playing it. I've even caught NLASS and her friends in their teens and twenties playing it.
Try the free version to learn tables 2-12. It's a fully functional version of the game, but doesn't have the variety of different worlds and creatures that the full version has.
If you decide to upgrade to the full version (you can earn a discount by telling a friend or buying the program at the same time as a friend), I would of course appreciate it if you do it through my affiliate link (any of the links on this post) which will give me a kickback of a portion of the sale for advertising: www.bigbrainz.com/index.php?PARTNER=purplekanga
P.S. Blog posts which are paid for by a sponsor or give me some sort of benefit such as an affiliate program will be tagged "sponsored" on my blog.
I'm so impressed by this program that I signed up for their affiliate program--something I don't do lightly.
Timez Attack is a video game with unusually exciting play and graphics. It plays like an role playing adventure game, where you direct your character through a 3-dimensional world. In order to open doors and fight monsters, you have to know your times tables.
Better yet, the way the game is set up actually helps to teach the times tables in a very visual, logical way. For example, early in the game a door labeled 2 x 8 has a graphic of two groups of 8 next to it. Little creatures jump out of the wall, each of them worth 8 points toward getting the door open. The program keeps a running count of your total as you catch the animals and they turn into balls worth 8 points each . . . 8, 16. Then you have to throw the correct number of balls (each worth 8) at the door to open it.
Behind the door is a monster who has multiplication problems appear on his belly. You deal him blows by solving the math problems until you beat him. If you get too close to him or take too long to type in the correct answer, he deals you a blow, which damages your character.
The graphics and game play are reminiscent of a PlayStation, GameCube or Wii type of RPG game, but you play it directly on your computer (there are downloads for either Mac or PC).
My math hater is suddenly very enthusiastic about learning her times tables. She's even happy to watch someone else play the game, and help by shouting out the answers as the math problems appear.
The game is so exciting that even I enjoy playing it. I've even caught NLASS and her friends in their teens and twenties playing it.
Try the free version to learn tables 2-12. It's a fully functional version of the game, but doesn't have the variety of different worlds and creatures that the full version has.
If you decide to upgrade to the full version (you can earn a discount by telling a friend or buying the program at the same time as a friend), I would of course appreciate it if you do it through my affiliate link (any of the links on this post) which will give me a kickback of a portion of the sale for advertising: www.bigbrainz.com/index.php?PARTNER=purplekanga
P.S. Blog posts which are paid for by a sponsor or give me some sort of benefit such as an affiliate program will be tagged "sponsored" on my blog.
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Posted by purple_kangaroo at 9:52 AM[Permanent link]
4 Comments:
Thanks! Muffin Man LOVES math and multiplication, but I'm always looking for things for him to play!
Hey, are you okay? Missed you this week.
Sounds like a cool game. Computer games helped me with math and spelling when I was in school. Of course, they weren't nearly as detailed and exciting as games now, but they worked!
Wow, several people have purchased the game through my affiliate link. Thanks so much, whoever you are.
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