Elementary Advantage 2003

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Summary: Elementary Advantage 2003
Review: Great Learning system, my son love it, he is in 1st grade and it just what we need to boost his curriculum and it much better that boring homework.

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Summary: Disappointed
Review: We purchased this program after buying High School Advantage and Math Advantage, but we were completely disappointed. We were hoping to get a program that teaches and tests in an interesting multimedia environment like High School Advantage and Math Advantage do, but what we got was a boring package of disks that do little more than test already acquired skills.

The Geography disk is just a trivia game and a non-working link to National Geographic online. The trivia game is cute but doesnt teach geography at all. Basically its testing existing geography knowledge.

The reading program is a cute game that is fun to play but doesnt improve reading skills anymore than a good book would. The Spanish program locks up my computer and wont run. The writing program is simply a text editor with a few borders and sounds add to a story you write. MS Word would be a better writing program as it has spelling and grammar correcting.

The spelling program is also a cute game that doesnt help to improve spelling skills at all. The typing program is fun and provides a simple (actually very simple) typing lesson, but is more useful for improving existing typing skills. The fractions program is another cute, but simple, game that does a small amount of teaching, but once again fractions skills must already be acquired to play the game.

The basic math disk is very similar to reading a math text. It is written on a boring page in plain type. It has very limited multimedia animations and a few exercises that are to be accomplished on a scratch paper. At least with Math Advantage and High School Advantage you can do your work on the computer.

Overall we found this product too simple and very boring especially for an active elementary school aged child.