Mia's Math Adventure: Just in Time!

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Mia's Math Adventure
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Developer(s) Kutoka Interactive
Publisher(s) Kutoka Interactive
Series Mia's Big Adventure Collection
Engine Macromedia Director
Platform(s) Windows, Macintosh
Release2001
Genre(s) Educational
Mode(s)Adventure Mode, Activities Mode

Mia's Math Adventure: Just in Time! is the third title of the Mia's Big Adventure Collection software series created by Kutoka Interactive. Released in 2001 in Canada and the United States, the game teaches mathematics to children between 6 and 10 years old. [1]

Contents

Adventure

Mia must travel back in time to prevent a 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 (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) geometry (circle, square, rectangle, triangle, closed and broken lines) logic, place value, fractions, measures, etc. [1]

Critical reception

Mia's Math Adventure received positive reviews from the National Parenting Center, [2] USA Today, MacAddict, ReviewCorner.com, [3] Maccentral.com, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Parent, and Los Angeles Times. [4]

Reception

The game received several awards from various organizations such as Parents' Choice, National Parenting Center, [6] Coalition for Quality Children's Media [7] [8] and iParenting Media Award. [9]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Mia's Math Adventure: Just in Time!". Kutoka.com, retrieved on 2009-06-16
  2. "Seal of Approval Winner Holiday 2001 - Mia - Just in Time!". TNPC. 2009-06-16
  3. "mia's math adventure: just in time". Review Corner, retrieved on 2009-06-16
  4. "Mia's Math Adventure: Just in Time! - Press Review & Awards". Kutoka.com, retrieved on 2009-06-16
  5. 1 2 "Mia's Math Adventure - Review Corner". October 2001. Archived from the original on April 17, 2004. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
  6. "Seal of Approval Winner Holiday 2001 - Mia - Just in Time!". TNPC, retrieved on 2009-06-16
  7. "Mia Math Awards Archived 2010-01-11 at the Wayback Machine ". Kutoka.com, retrieved on 2009-06-16
  8. "Kids First! CD Titles". Kids First!, retrieved 2009-06-16
  9. "Mia's Math Adventure - Just in Time!". iParenting Media, retrieved on 2009-06-16

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