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(More customer reviews)My daughter loves the 3rd grade and 4th grade disks, and begged for this one.
She has spent a lot of time playing with this game, so I'm glad that we bought it, but of the Jump Start nth grade series, it is by far the weakest. The biggest issue is the art history sections and crossword puzzles, full of painters that I've never heard of and trivia that seems largely irrelevant, over the head of most adults, let alone kids. There's no instructional material before the puzzles that introduces the kids to these painters, either; they're just expected to know it. I can tell that a lot of parents felt the same way, because whenever I googled to find an answer, I found that someone had already posed that exact, obscure question and gotten it answered online.
So maybe that's the point of this game. To teach your 5th grader-to-be about the power of online search. I suppose at that, it would be a success... but only if your child has the ability to access Google while playing, and/or if you the parent are willing to help with those puzzles.
We also had some trouble figuring out how to do the complex math problems, multiplying multiple digit by multiple digit numbers. Only after much trial and error did we finally realize you were intended to do the whole problem on the computer, showing each step and then add them together, rather than just enter the final answer, as you did with every previous level of difficulty. An example problem or more specific help would have saved us about 40 minutes of frustration.
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