Math Blaster Mystery
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''Math Blaster Mystery'' is a 1989
educational video game An educational video game is a video game that provides learning or training value to the player. Edutainment describes an intentional merger of video games and educational software into a single product (and could therefore also comprise more ...
developed by Davidson & Associates for the
Apple II Apple II ("apple Roman numerals, two", stylized as Apple ][) is a series of microcomputers manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1977 to 1993. The Apple II (original), original Apple II model, which gave the series its name, was designed ...
, Apple IIGS, and Mac (computer), Mac and published in 1989. It followed ''Math Blaster!'' and ''Alge-Blaster!'' as the third entry in the ''Blaster Learning System'' franchise.


Reception

''Compute!'' deemed it a "departure from the rote software that Davidson is best known for". ''The Baltimore Sun'' recommended the game for older players. The paper ''Mathematics Achievement Among Chinese-American and Caucasian-American Fifth and Sixth Grade Girls'' assessed the educational capabilities of the title, noting that the minigame Follow the Steps was "designed to help develop strategies for solving word problems step by step". ''Second International Handbook of Mathematics Education'' noted its uniqueness in framing word problems through context relevant to the overall game narrative, though added that it rarely went beyond
elementary arithmetic Elementary arithmetic is a branch of mathematics involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and Division (mathematics), division. Due to its low level of abstraction, broad range of application, and position as the foundation of all mathema ...
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Awards

, - ! scope="row" , 1990 , ''Math Blaster Mystery'' , Software Publishers Association award for Best Secondary Education Program ,


References


External links

* https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/107621759001300210?journalCode=gctb (behind paywall) * https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ403015 (behind paywall) 1989 video games Apple II games Apple IIGS games Children's educational video games Classic Mac OS games Davidson & Associates games Mathematical education video games Mystery video games Video games developed in the United States {{Video game stub