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WILD WEST MATH VERSION 3.11 © 1998-2001 Micrograms Software WINDOWS and MACINTOSH Permission to duplicate this guide is granted to schools. PURPOSE AND SCOPE Wild West Math helps students in grades 2 - 6 develop and refine fundamental math skills. From memorization of basic math facts to the process of long division, important math skills are exercised and strengthened by an amusing assortment of colorful characters from the American Wild West. Program activities can be adjusted by teacher or student to accommodate a wide range of learning needs. Tutorial help screens provide carefully structured assistance when necessary. Informative records on both current and cumulative student work can be developed as the program is used. Wild West Math is just what calculatin’ cowpokes need to round up first class math skills at their computer desktops. GETTING STARTED This program is designed to be installed onto the hard drive of a stand-alone computer or server before it is run. Because the program features 3D SVGA animation and multimedia sound, it requires significant computing power. On fast enough machines, Wild West Math also can be run directly from the CD-ROM drive. However, in that case, satisfactory program performance depends heavily on the speed of both the computer and its CD-ROM drive. Micrograms recommends Pentium level processors for running Wild West Math on Windows 95/98, NT/2000, or ME. SVGA graphics are required. On Macintosh, G3's, iMac's, Power Mac's , or old 1 with 640x480 256 color graphics and 32 MB of RAM are recommend- ed. A computer too slow to run this program well displays sluggish animation and/or lip movements way out of sync with the sound. Installation and startup instructions for Wild West Math are located on page 11 of this teacher's guide. FOUR PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 1. ROUND-UP TRAIL Trailhand Dan spends quiet, moonlit nights with his friendly herd. He has time to work with students on their rounding skills. From Program Options on the Menu Bar, select Rounding. Then select the rounding problems you wish students to practice. These include the following: ROUNDING TO Nearest Ten Nearest Hundred Nearest Thousand Combinations of the Above Now, from the Menu Screen, select ROUND-UP TRAIL by clicking on the appropriate signpost or by using the 1 number key. Trailhand Dan will present 10 problems of the kind(s) selected. …