Mia's Math Adventure: Just in Time! is the third title of Mia's Big Adventure Collection

Mia's Big Adventure Collection

Mia's Big Adventure Collection is an edutainment software series created in 1998 by Kutoka Interactive. The series consists in four subject-based titles for children in elementary school.- Gameplay :...

software series created by Kutoka Interactive

Kutoka Interactive

Kutoka Interactive is an educational software company founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1995. The company produces, develops, and distributes both subject-based and grade-based video games for Windows and Macintosh.- Background :...

. Released in 2001 in Canada and the United States, the game teaches mathematics to children between 6 and 10 years old.

Adventure

Mia must travel back in time to prevent the terrible fire that has consumed her house. After helping Marty gather the parts to build a time-travelling machine, she returns in the past in order to discover the cause of the fire and prevent it from ever happening.

Activities

The game's 12 educational activities teach arithmetic

Arithmetic

Arithmetic or arithmetics is the oldest and most elementary branch of mathematics, used by almost everyone, for tasks ranging from simple day-to-day counting to advanced science and business calculations. It involves the study of quantity, especially as the result of combining numbers...

 (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) geometry

Geometry

Geometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers ....

 (circle, square, rectangle, triangle, closed and broken lines) logic

Logic

In philosophy, Logic is the formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning. Logic is used in most intellectual activities, but is studied primarily in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics, semantics, and computer science...

, place value, fractions, measures, etc.

Critical reception

Mia's Math Adventure received positive reviews from the National Parenting Center, USA Today, MacAddict, ReviewCorner.com, Maccentral.com, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Parent, and Los Angeles Times.

Awards

The game received several awards from various organization such as Parents' Choice, National Parenting Center, Coalition for Quality Children's Media and iParenting Media Award.

External links

• Mia's Math Adventure at Kutoka.com