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Nine activities provide a full curriculum of early-learning challenges: math (including fractions), music, geography, spelling, reading, and telling time. Disney's designers didn't forget the fun factor, either: kids learn double-digit math as they build a marble maze with the help of Jessie, the tomboy cowgirl. Blasting meteorites into halves and thirds makes fractions fun, and Buzz spouts global trivia, such as "Argentina has the most sunflowers in the world," to teach geography.
The music area is a real standout. There's a full four-octave keyboard complete with reverb, and exploration yields click-and-drag cassettes that transform the board's sounds into anything from a rock concert to a circus tent. Musically inclined kids will have hours of fun in this spot alone.
This CD-ROM takes full advantage of the audio and visual possibilities computer-based learning can offer. Listen for background music composed specifically for certain activities, and watch for the shadows that the precisely rendered characters cast. (Ages 6 to 8) --Anne Erickson
| PLATFORM: | Macintosh, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Disney Interactive |
| ESRB RATING: | Everyone |
| TYPE: | Computer software (programs), Kids (Children), Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 044702009381 |
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Customer Reviews of Disney's Buzz Lightyear 2nd Grade
Georgia Mom This product is so-so. My five year old daughter laughs at Jessie's math maze(even though it does not challenge her). She did learn the basic concept of multiplication by using this program. Overall, she is already bored with it after just a few hours of play.
Buzz Lightweight
I'm sorry I bought this program BEFORE reading the other reviews here, because they're generally right on.
"Buzz Lightyear 2nd Grade" is just a superficial money-maker cranked out by people who either don't know or don't care about child education. Most of the "activities" are so brainless and boring that I was secretly ashamed to be encouraging my child to "enjoy" them.
Plus, the installation on my plain Windows 98 PC was a nightmare. I'm a very knowledgeable user but it still took me almost two full evenings. The setup program is at once unforgiving and stupid. My existing version 4.0 Quicktime just HAD to be upgraded to v4.01, for example - and this launched itself (involving a major download) right in the middle of the main program installation. This had predictable results.
Other issues were files installed with the wrong attributes (which later stopped the program), an uninstall file given a wrong extension (which prevented an uninstall), beta test messages popping up, and an almost unsolvable conflict with msvcrt.dll (a common problem). This last would crash the program whenever an activity was exited.
I was ready to give up when I found mention on this site of an available patch.
Running this patch finally got me going, although the speech is often totally garbled, especially in the intro screen.
My advice - save your money. Don't reward efforts like this. We could have had so much, much more from a Disney / Pixar collaboration.
learning is fun too !!
While my son enjoys playing "his software", he is particularly interested in the Toy Story themes. With Buzz Lightyear as his favorite, he is naturally drawn into hours of learning fun with this Disney Interactive program. I have been surprised at his knowledge in geography and his reading skills. Jessie's math maze has expediated his math abilities. There are enough game options to keep his interst level up and his computing skills sharp. I also get the benefit of having my son sit on my lap while helping him through the tougher games. Certainly a purchase well worth the price.