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Tonight I took my first challenge of the game ‘Math’s Training’ on the Nintendo DS Lite.

I have been curious about this game and its potential to enhance Numeric skills. My first impressions are that it is ‘mediocre’. I am not entirely sure that it is any better than any of the other ‘Brain’ games currently available for the DS.

It quite obviously has the potential to enhance one’s mental arithmetic. However:

• It doesn’t appear to gauge the current ability of the player as well as a game like ‘My Word Coach’  for example.
• It keeps thinking that my written ‘8′ is a ‘2′, my ‘7′ is a ‘1′ (it won’t give me time to put a score through the ‘7′- first game where my writing has proved to be problematic)- I consider myself to have pretty good hand writing, but possibly not when under pressure.
• It has a really annoying repetitive tune (and I have never said that about any game before- I am getting old!).

-All of which I am utterly sure will not hinder my pupil counterparts.

Anyway- these are only my first impressions. I will give it a good run for its money over the weekend. I am keen to hear of what others think of it (in context) compared to alternative games on the market.

Does this game have a place in Scottish Maths Education?

Fancy a shot Jonsie? And yes OB, I will let you have a go… that is if you haven’t bought it already!