Carmen Sandiego Math Detective facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Carmen Sandiego Math Detective |
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| Developer(s) | Brøderbund |
| Series | Carmen Sandiego |
| Platform(s) | Mac OS, Microsoft Windows |
| Release date(s) | Winter 1998 |
| Genre(s) | Educational |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Carmen Sandiego Math Detective is a fun computer game released in 1998. It's part of the popular Carmen Sandiego series. This game is a lot like Carmen Sandiego Word Detective, which came out the year before. In Math Detective, you become a special agent. Your mission is to stop the sneaky Carmen Sandiego and her team of villains.
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What's the Game About?
Carmen Sandiego has used a special machine called the Quantum Crystallizer. This machine shrinks famous landmarks into tiny crystals! Your job is to find these crystals and make the landmarks big again. You travel to different secret hideouts around the world. At each hideout, you play cool math-related mini-games.
How Do You Play?
The mini-games include challenges like Atom Smasher, Crimewave Sensor, and Microchip Decoder. When you finish these games, you earn secret passwords. Once you collect enough passwords, you get special keys. These keys let you free the shrunken crystals from Carmen's machine. The game has over 400 math problems to solve. It also comes with a guide, a list of math terms, and progress reports. You can choose from three different difficulty levels.
What Math Skills Will You Learn?
This game makes learning math fun! You'll practice many important skills. These include solving word problems and estimating answers. You'll also learn about geometry, equations, and how to model problems. The game helps you work with whole numbers, money, fractions, and decimals. All these math activities help you solve the game's puzzles. They are not just boring exercises!
Stolen Landmarks and Structures
Carmen Sandiego is very tricky! She has stolen many famous places from around the world. Here are some of the landmarks you'll need to rescue:
- Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay, California, United States
- Angel Falls in Venezuela, South America
- Great Wall of China in the People's Republic of China, Asia
- Roman Colosseum in Rome, Italy
- Nile River in Egypt, Africa
- Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States
- Great Barrier Reef in Australia
- Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Caspian Sea in Eurasia
- Mount Everest in Nepal, Asia
- Hubble Space Telescope orbiting Earth
- Ayers Rock in the Northern Territory, Australia
How Popular Was the Game?
Around the time Carmen Sandiego Math Detective was released, the Carmen Sandiego game series was very popular. It had sold about 6 million copies worldwide. About 40,000 of these copies were used in elementary schools.
