Educational Insights MathShark Electronic Math Game, Electronic Learning Toy, Ages 6+

I choose the Educational Insights Math Shark because I thought it would be a wonderful device to use to help my daughter with her arithmetic. I was not disappointed by the product at all. Once we started using the Educational Insights Math Shark, it has been nothing but a blessing for my daughter. She enjoys using to help with her homework and also when she is asked to pick something to do for awhile during the time I am making dinner or lunch. She'll go and get the Educational Insights Math Shark. She totally loves it. What I like most, as a parent, about the Educational Insights Math Shark is that it is not limited to just one age level or math level. The device will grow with my daughter as we use it in our home to help her. And, as a parent who has not had to do math for years, it has been great for me to refresh my math skills so that I am able to help her more. I find it fun to play with myself. That is another great point, we not only see it as something to use for and educational supporter but my daughter also sees it as something fun to play with not only something to help her with her homework and studies.

I'm doing a review on the MathShark. It is for ages six and up. It will help you practice with your adding, subtraction, multiplying, dividing, decimals, fractions and percents. It has a button for each one of these. After you turn it on it will tell you what to do on the lcd screen. Let's do it! 1. Turn on. 2. It says MathShark. 3. Then it say Sounds. It will ask you if you want the sound on or off. Choose Enter if you want the sound on and Clear if you want the sound off. I'm going to click the Enter button to hear the sounds. 4. Then it says to Choose a skill. If will go through all of your options. Choose add, sub, mul, div, dec, frac, pct. These are the abbreviations of adding, subtraction, multiply, division, decimal, fraction and percent. I'm going to press the button Add. 5. Then it reads Add, Press 1-8 for level. There are 8 skill levels. I'm going to choose the number one because it is the easiest and then hit enter. 6. An example shows up with 1 + 2 = 3. 7. Then it reads Start ? with a yes or no. Click on enter for yes and Clear for no. I'm going to click enter. 8. In the left hand corner it says L 1. That means Level One. To the right is 0 + 2. I'm going to press the answer as 2. The Green light comes on with some sort of sound. That tells you it is the correct answer. 9. It has changed to the next screen with a different adding problem. It says 1 + 2. I'm going to press 1 and see what happens because this is the wrong answer. The Red light flashes on and makes a sound. This is to tell you it was the wrong answer. Then the next problem shows up. It continues in this way. It sounds like a lot of steps but it's really not. There is one thing that parents will really like about this toy. The two sounds it make are very low volume. I can see kids really liking and playing with this toy. To me it looks like it is in the shape of a video game which makes it more appealing. It is very easy to learn. I forgot to tell you that there is a button that you press to choose Calculator or Learning. You press the top or bottom to choose which one. The calculator works the same as any other calculator. The sounds work with it also. I highly recommend this product. Give you kids a chance to lean Math early so they have something to build on.