The ClueFinders 4th Grade Adventures :: Education by Design Store

Customer Reviews

Fun and challenging - my son loved it!

2001-04-18
My son loves this game, and solving the exercises and problems was fun to earn clues to the mystery. It seemed the appropriate level of challenge, as he will be entering 4th grade in the fall, and he needed help with some of the exercises, especially fractions. That was a good opportunity to introduce him to the subject. With the ADAPT feature, if they get stuck, the software keeps the level easy enough so they don't get too frustrated, and hard enough that it is still challenging. I highly recommend this software.

Great fun! and Learning Too!

2001-02-09
Both of my children have thoroughly enjoyed the Cluefinder Series, especially this 3rd Grade Edition. I have tried many similar products but have found them to be either to heavy on the education, thereby losing the kids interest, or too heavy on the fun and they don't really learn much. In this product, the children get to work with a small group of kids (whom they may know already from other Cluefinders adventures)as they seek to solve the story/mysteries. I love the way the kids get rewarded for progress during their journey, providing even more incentive to continue. And the best part of all: they really do learn! During dinner one evening, my son showed off some of the math skills he had learned quite far in advance of his school classmates. And it wasn't just rote memorization. He had really learned the concepts. My hat is off to The Learning Company!

Kids love it

2001-01-20
My daughter doesn't really like doing math and english, but when she plays this game, she forgets that she's practicing her school skills. My son loves the games too, even though he is a year behind her.

Most of the tasks start out easy, then get harder. The kids just seem to take it in stride, and by the end, they are doing difficult fraction-conversions (1/2 => 3/6 or vice versa), or unscrambling words, or playing "memory" with math facts!

IT BOMBS OUT! 2000-08-16
I was very surprised to get this program home and find that it seems to have some major bugs. The concept seems great, the problem is the program keeps crashing if you play it too long.

The tech people say it has to do with the on-line registration, they report some people can register and some can not.

It is very frustrating to spend good money on a program and have it not work.

I hope they get the kinks worked out of an otherwise excellent game.

Kids loved it! 2000-06-20
My kids loved this adventure. My daughter is going into the 3rd grade this fall, and she has played and beaten the game on level one. She is playing again and getting better at the percentage of correct answers. My son played it many times when he was in 3rd grade. The 5 different levels make it interesting when playing over again.

Great learning game! 2008-01-08
My children loved the adventure game so much that they were willing to do the math required to solve the puzzles. It made a great review for them to use over the summer.

They even wanted to play the game again after finishing it the first time.

ClueFinders 4th Grade is fun 2006-03-11
I opened up the game and the minute I heard Soferdus (Joni's dog) do the first narration sentence, I knew I would like this game. The way they create this is brilliant. It covers most subjects and teaches them in a way that is very helpful for those who are having trouble. You start off in Cairo to find an ancient scroll. My only regrets for the Cairo area is you have to go back to the activities over and over until you deciphered all 5 clues and the geography game is very long and my favorite game, the fabric fractions game, is very short. Then you sail up the Nile to an island where you must collect gems from the mice in the area (who seem to think they are ancient Egyptians). Again, you have to keep going back to the activities until you've earned all the gems. The difference between Cairo is they always give you 3 cairoglyphs and run out, but you can never tell how many gems the rats have until they run out. Therefore, my least favorite games get played over and over, but my favorite games can get short. Also, for some strange reason, I had to play a pillar building game using decimals (that I hate) over and over and over until he ran out of gems. After that, they must go thru ancient challenges until they reach the end. Then just sit back and enjoy the rest of the story. I love the humor in this thing, but it kind of insults the Egyptian gods at one point. (I can't tell you where because it gives away an important part.)

Overall, it's a great game, although I must say the plot is much greater then the learning concept. The plot will grip children and they will go back again and again and move up levels until they have learned everything in the game. I recommend it (despite my complaints). ~Russian Blue Witch

Great program for everybody! 2005-06-28
This program is great when it comes to learning!. This was my first cluefinder game and I enjoyed it very much. should work on most computers.

Superb CD!!! 2005-02-25
I love the CD outside of not saving or being a help button. I learned about Ra and Napolian. Next,I learned the closest state to Canada was Minnsota.The first Clue Finders CD I saw was the 6th grade one.

Great in the classroom 2001-05-05
I teach special education classes in a jr. high school. This program (and the 5th Grade Adventure) is terrific for my students who are 6th to 8th graders reading at 3rd to 5th grade level. they have the same interest as every other Jr. High student, but not the ability to process at the same level. My students play this game all the time -- It is not patronizing to the students like a Reader Rabbit game would be. I have purchased several copies so that more than one student can play at a time. I HIGHLY reccommend it.