The Times Key Stage 3 Maths (Ages 11-14)

from The Times

Enlarge Image See More Details		Release Date: 18/07/2003 Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Category: Software
		Children Store Price: £9.99

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

The Times Key Stage 3 Maths is a very easy-to-use and well-presented multimedia CD ROM that would appeal to children aged 11-14.

The program consists of three CD-ROMs that cover measures, properties of shapes and properties of position, movement and transformation. Children can choose whether to work at National Curriculum Levels 3-5, 4-6 or 5-7, which allows for progression and for this CD-ROM to be used by more than one child.

There is a section for parents that shows the objectives for each unit of work and gives answers. Children are given explanations, for example, of how to find the area of a parallelogram or the circumference and area of a circle. They then carry out an exercise or an activity, such as finding areas of other parallelograms and circles or plotting co-ordinates on a graph.

Many of the activities require children to drag and drop information or click the answer. At the end of each unit of work there is a game that helps to consolidate the child's learning. Children can also play the games at three levels--no time limit, three lives and three lives with a time constraint.

The Time Key Stage 3 Maths would be good to use with children aged 11-14 to consolidate what they have been learning at school or as a revision aid. --Amanda York