Learning Resources Dino Math Tracks Place Value Game
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Learning ResourcesBrand: Learning Resources
Release Date: 2006-06-12
Model: LER0712
Product features:
- Award winner
- Prehistoric twist
- Reinforces counting, addition, subtraction and place value skills
- Various levels of play
- For 2-4 players
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Toys and Games Reviews of Learning Resources Dino Math Tracks Place Value Game
Customer Review: Mixed review
Summary: 2 Stars
The upside:
If you're looking to get your kids excited about math, this works. My girls loved the dinosaurs and the Action cards sent them into giggles.
If you're looking to get your kids to understand the different place values in a multi-digit number, this works, i.e. within a half hour of play, my 6-year olds were able to read 5,425 as five thousand, four hundred and twenty five. Before we started the game they could not.
The downside:
There are errors in the instructions. The colors/place values described do not agree with the board. We found another similar error in the "Action cards". To me, it is not acceptable to have careless mistakes in a math game.
Educationally, it just doesn't make sense that 1s, 10s, 100s, and 1000s all appear as roughly equal footsteps on the board. Yes, they are marked as 1, 10, 100, and 1000s on the footprint, but moving ahead 1 step for 1 moves your dinosaur the same distance as moving forward 1 step for the 1000. It just gives you no sense of the relative values.
The board gets too crowded with even 2 players but with 4 it was very hard to keep track of your pieces (16 total on the board.)
Perhaps because I have been "conditioned" by so many other games (like Trouble or Sorry) I was used to looking for "my color" and not "my dinosaur". Every player gets 4 different colors of 1 type of dinosaur. I'm sure its something you get used to but it was yet another annoyance.
The cards that came with the game are very flimsy, barely a heavy cardstock. They do not look like they will hold up to much use.
Description of Learning Resources Dino Math Tracks Place Value Game
Prehistoric pals make this award-winning math game a blast. Roll the dice and move the dinosaurs around a delightfully illustrated game board. Learn all about numbers - from counting, addition and subtraction to place value skills. Includes game board, 16 dinosaurs, cards, number die and instructions for various levels of play. For 2 to 4 players.Awards:
- Family Fun magazine Toy of the Year Runner-up (1992)
- Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal, Best Toy Award (1993)
- Early Childhood News, 100 Best Product Picks (1993)
- Canadian Toy Testing Council Three Star Seal
The Dino Math Tracks game (winner of several prestigious awards, including an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal) is a race around the rainbow with a pack of pintsize, prehistoric pals. An unusual spin on a typical roll-the-dice-and-move game, it spotlights the mathematical concept of place value and gives kids reinforcement in what makes our base-10 number system tick. Each player is allotted one dinosaur for each of the four tracks (the tracks are labeled 1s, 10s, 100s, and 1000s). To play, a player rolls four dice to create a 4-digit number and then moves his or her prehistoric posse to the appropriate 1s, 10s, 100s, and 1000s places. Problem-solving strategies are honed as players scurry to get all four miniature mammoths or tiny triceratops into the dino haven, ahead of the other players' thundering herds. But look out! In the race to dino utopia, it's easy to get bumped by a baby brachiosaurus!
The Dino Math Tracks game provides multiple levels of play for a variety of ages. At the simplest level (perfect for a first-grader who knows Arabic numerals and one-to-one correspondence), kids use only the place track for the 1s. Later, cards with simple problems are introduced ("Stuck in a tar pit! Move your 10s dino back two spaces!"). At the most advanced level, players might encounter a question like this: "Your 10s dinosaur forgot its pants, so it went back 15 to get them. Then it hurried forward 25. How far did it get? Move that many." Young players will find the 2-inch, spunky vinyl dinosaur playing pieces irresistible. The game offers plenty of opportunities for friendly competition and brain bending--not to mention lots of nonthreatening practice at addition and subtraction. --Julie Ubben
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