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Mighty Math Kindergarten to 2nd Grade Disc 1: Carnival Countdown


First is Carnival Countdown, as the scoring system in most Edmark Games work differently than you may think since they have a slider bar that's access from each activity or from the Admin being the Adult Options by means of the CTRL-ALT-A Hotkey.

While the game does not have an indicator for right or Wrong Answers. The Growth Slider has 4 Colored Difficulties where if a player makes enough mistakes, its progress is NOT counted against them but rather, removes wrong answers until the correct answers are selectable, NOT to give them the right answer directly. Because you WANT a player to enter the answer even when the game the answers for and NOT to automatically answer it for them and move on. Otherwise, children who play the Mighty Math or Thinkin Things Games back in the 1990s stop paying attention and don't learn anything from them.

For the Growth Sliders chart, each has a color set and Letter Code Starting from A to Beginner to Z being Advanced. Mighty Math Disc 1-4 has an example where the its score reaches a certain total before the Final Skill called Review.

So the idea for this score calculation is to complete as many Skill Levels in each activity as possible to see what high score that a person can end up with out of the Total Possible Points that the game has to offer, rather than relying on skill alone

So because of the Explore mode in Edmark's games, it feels more like Software Toys in a way while the Q&A mode, is for score attack runs to determine a player's best score, accuracy, rating and rank without penalties that count against the player's progress. In other words, Edmark's methods as a Software Toy and Critical Thinking Skills. The way that's done is when wrong answers are eliminated to narrow down the possible outcomes until the correct answer remains without the game solving the problem for the player and skipping ahead to the next problem.

Overall, in other Educational Software Companies such as The Learning Company, ABC Electronic Arts, Knowledge Adventure, etc, a wrong answer does count against the player's score while Edmark does not most of the time.

Another factor behind this is that clicking on the characters that give clues multiple times would not only repeat the problem but also give hints to help narrow down the possible answers.

However, if at any point a player in the Mighty Math and Thinkin Things Series find that the game's unstable or they think that a Operation Error happens that will cause the game to crash, they can take the points they earned and drop out of said Edmark game.

= Carnival Countdown Growth Slider Bar Chart
Carnival Cars Total = 13 Points
Easy = 4 Points
Normal = 4 Points
Hard = 4 Points
Hardest = 2 Points

Snap Clowns Total = 26 Points
Easy = 8 Points
Normal = 8 Points
Hard = 5 Points
Hardest = 5 Points

Giggle Factory Total = 23 Points
Easy = 8 Points
Normal = 8 Points
Hard = 4 Points
Hardest = 3 Points

Pattern Block Roundup Total = 26 Points
Easy = 8 Points
Normal = 8 Points
Hard = 5 Points
Hardest = 5 Points

Bubble Band = 25 Points
Easy = 8 Points
Normal = 8 Points
Hard = 4 Points
Hardest = 5 Points

Total Possible Points For Carnival Countdown: 113 Points

NOTE: Carnival Countdown is known to crash on the Bubble Band in later questions on Windows NT with True Color. If that happens. Take a Screenshot of the Progress of the Current Growth Slider along with the Topic and switch to a Windows 9x 256 Color Virtual Machine. If that still doesn't work play a question. Pass it, save and exit then restart.

This will take longer to complete the activity its better than backtracking after the game crashes.

It also helps to sync the clicks on the mouse button when using the bubble band to add.

So as a last resort, a player can drop out of Carnival Countdown after getting a good score to avoid game crashes.

Mighty Math Kindergarten to 2nd Grade Disc 2: Zoo Zillions


Second is Zoo Zillions, which is Disc 2 of Mighty Math Kindergarten to 2nd Grade

= Zoo Zillions Growth Slider Bar Chart
Jungle Trail = 24 Points
Easy = 8 Points
Normal = 8 Points
Hard = 4 Points
Hardest = 4 Points

Gnu Ewe Boutique = 22 Points
Easy = 8 Points
Normal = 8 Points
Hard = 4 Points
Hardest = 4 Points

Number Line Express Train = 22 Points
Easy = 8 Points
Normal = 8 Points
Hard = 4 Points
Hardest = 4 Points

3D Gallery = 24 Points
Easy = 8 Points
Normal = 8 Points
Hard = 4 Points
Hardest = 4 Points

Fish Stories = 25 Points
Easy = 8 Points
Normal = 8 Points
Hard = 4 Points
Hardest = 5 Points

Total Possible Points For Zoo Zillions: 117 Points

Mighty Math 3rd to 6th Grade Disc 3: Number Heroes

Mighty Math 3rd to 6th Grade Disc 4: Calculating Crew

Mighty Math Discs 1-4: Overall Results
*Kindergarten to 6th Grade*
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