Maths Training DS (Professor Kageyama's Maths Training (DS))

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Product:	Professor Kageyama's Maths Training (DS)
Date:	31/01/09 (34 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap to Buy

Disadvantages: No real way to improve your maths, its more about speed than anything else

I have used my daughters DS for a long time and have played Brain Training on it many times, which we all love. For Christmas this year I was treated to my own DS, and so I went out and bought Maths Training for myself.

Whilst the game was a very reasonable price... I am not impressed with the actual game play at all.

It's a series of 10 x 10 grids and the basic times table grids are fine, but, it often didnt recognise the number I was writing (and my writing is neat and my numbers are legible) and also it seemed that the makers had tried to make this about how fast you can complete a grid, rather than with Brain Training which was more about how you improve. I am extremely good with Maths but strugged because of the handwriting\speed elements. Whereas my husband is by his own admission less capable with Mathematics, yet was great at this as he treated it as a game and looked at the next column while writing in the first etc and was more than happy about the competative speed element. Neither of us though feel our mathematics ability has improved because of this game. I also got my 9 year old to try this and whilst she could answer questions, she didnt want to stay on this after a couple of tries because the speed element made her fell pressured and she made mistakes.

We all I want to help our children improve their maths skills, but not knock their confidence, and so I would definately recommend that this is not bought for a child as a maths aid.

Summary: Not for me I'm afraid