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Professor Kageyama's Maths Training (Nintendo DS) | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: puzzle-games
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 4.9 x 0.8
MPN: 1830046
UPC: 045496466176
EAN: 0045496466176
ASIN: B0012CQ7SO
Release Date: February 8, 2008
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 Good but some entry error issues February 10, 2008
C. Thomas (Weston super Mare)
57 out of 58 found this review helpful
The Good: This has some really good maths testing and training facilities with just about the right level of difficulty. Ideal for someone who just likes testing themselves or for someone that needs to improve their maths skills.
The Bad: This requires the answers to be handwrittend with the stylus. For some users this will mean you write the correct answer but the program will see it as a different number. I have a massive problem with 9 which gets read as a 0 or a 2 and quite often 8 gets mistaken for a 2 or a 6. This can be really infuriating. A better implimentation would have been to have a touchpad imput for the right answer rather than a written one.
If you have bad handwriting go for Big Brain Academy instead.
 only got it today, but so far so good February 9, 2008
Emma
27 out of 33 found this review helpful
I really like this. It is very positive and encouraging & I found the games fun. I deliberately didn't dpend ages practising the games tho as that is how I have ended up bored with other similar (ish) software.
happy with my ourchase, it isn't identical to brain training, but will appeal to anyone who likes that title.
Professor Kageyama's Maths Training (Nintendo DS) February 25, 2008
Zempavlob
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
Overall this game provides very useful practice for times tables, multiplication, subtraction, division & addition - and seems to be particularly appealing to children who are addicted to their DS :-)
The daily test is short enough (c. 5 minutes)to make it 'fun' for primary school children & so can be done before going to school - eg over breakfast?. It was used daily in our house during the recent school half term - with no prompting from me!
Agree with earlier posting about the fact that their writing is not always recognised - my bete noir is the number 4! I guess practice makes perfect.....
Would prefer for the game to include progression charts (so child/children can see over time how they have improved ) and include name of person who holds the time record for each event a la Brain Training game - for those with a competitive streak.
Minor gripe: colours of medals should be a bit more distinct, colourwise (bronze and gold are very similar)
A Must for all primary school children today. April 5, 2008
T. Williamson
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I bought this game because I was struggling to help my daughter with maths homework. I have finished school 30 years ago! I figured as my daughter loves her ds this game would fit in well. I also have a private tutor once a week, and she thought this game was a great idea and would benefit all children of Primary school age. She was appalled that schools are not teaching kids their times tables like they used to. When they do they;re only teaching up to tens, not twelves like we used to.This game demonstrates maths like it used to be taught. Same techniques for add, subtraction and multiplication are used in this game. What a relief! These days they teach kids 4 different ways of calculating sums hoping that at least one method will sink in. Success rates are low in our schools. So I would recommend this game 100 per cent. I dont feel like I;m bullying her to get it done because she loves her ds. Have to agree with previous statements made about game not recognising certain numbers.All brain training programmes have same infuriating fault.Try speaking the colours on the first brain train programme and you;ll see what I mean. Seems to relate to womens voices better.
 A dip in quality February 29, 2008
Coey Ohwow (UK)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is the latest in a series of games designed to help improve your cognitive skills, in this case by testing basic maths skills, encouraging you to become faster and more accurate at every day maths problems.
The hundred cell method is mildy interesting, but overall this game is dissapointing. It is nowhere near as fun as the other brain training games, and the games you play are quite boring. Obviously it was always going to be a bit one dimensional given that it concentrates on maths where other games focus on various abilities, but that is no excuse for the lack of imagination on display here and controls that require nothing except writing numbers. A poor use of DS technology, and completely inessential for anyone with the original games.
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