Hi,
I'm back. Restarted the computer today and the dial was working again. Weird. (And I'm using the full version on a PC with Vista Ultimate)
Even though my DS couldn't possibly do Descartes Cove on his own, I ordered it to take advantage of the favorable pricing and figured I'd put it away for a while. Then I opened it to see what it looked like and DS wanted to try it - and loves it. I was following Cathy's lead on this one - math enrichment with mom (Thanks for posting that info a while ago, Cathy).
We started with measurement, as that is all calculations. There are conversions from square inches to square yards, Fahrenheit to C, some exponents, nanometers, etc. I'd have to tell DS what the various units were and then help him set up the multiplication problem. Figured then he could learn to multiply 3.67 x 42 and learn about decimals, etc.
Quite frankly, he has no clue what he's doing, but he hated math after EPGY last year and he wants to spend a day doing Descartes Cove. So I figure let him have fun while making him do the calculations and he'll start to absorb it - and maybe start to enjoy math. He's always learned better by stealth mode anyway - while doing something else, he absorbs the information. I think this is a better introduction for him than a piece of paper with all the conversion formulas on it.
Of course, he's had rather unique issues in school.
