JumpStart 5th Grade | 
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| From: Vivendi Universal
Category: Software
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $4.76
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 4868
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
Genre: Arcade Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 8 - 12.9166666667 years
Operating System: Windows ME
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 03756
Model: 3752
UPC: 738981037523
EAN: 0738981037523
ASIN: B00001XDW8
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Stop the villainous Dr. X from destroying the City! Pack extreme fun and exciting adventure into learning while you search out the clues, unlock secret codes, and expose the villain's menacing plan. Master over 25 skills in Math, Reading, History, Science and more.
Amazon.com Product Description
Enter the world of Jo Hammet, a 5th-grade gumshoe who's hot on a case. While visiting the museum on a field trip, she uncovers a sinister plot to destroy all of the city's factories! Her mission is to find clues leading to the capture of the mad genius, Dr. X. Armed with her wits and her skateboard, Jo plays curriculum-building games while dodging Dr. X's goons and searching for clues to unravel the mystery.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Be a detective June 25, 2000
ashjh@singnet.com (Singapore)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Join Jo Hammet, kid detective as she captures Dr x. before Hooverville is destroyed. Put on your thinking, playing and excitement caps! You will play a crossword (Geography and arts) at Hooverville Museum then you will proceed to the station to pick a math lock (Math) and get in , to eavesdrop on a fill-in-the-blanks speech by henchmen of Dr. x! Skate over (you will control Jo's skateboard and run away from the henchmen, if you get caught by them, you will go to jail. You will sequence the boxes with the biggest under and escape from the window! It's math skills you require here.) to Bertie's Juice bar to work on fractions and prepare sodas to get stuff from Bertie. Go over to Jimmy's Junkyard and arrange the tangram like the picture above and get something you need to disarm the bomb Dr x is preparing. Then it's over to Maggie Mead's underground artifact place! Be careful of the rolling stones. You have got to buy this CD! It's educational too! I have it, IT'S COOL...
 Step Down for Jump Start Series March 29, 2000
Phyllis Little (State College, PA)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
After loving Jump Start 3rd and 4th Grades, I was very disappointed in Jump Start 5th Grade. It is difficult to navigate and some of the material is far beyond the knowledge of any 5th grader I know. To solve the Art History crossword puzzle you are supposed to go to the gallery and do research. But the gallery is so hard to use that my family usually resorts to randomly guessing letters in the puzzle rather than try it. As an educated adult, I don't even know more than one of four clues in the puzzles without research or guessing. If the other subjects were as unreasonable as Art History, I would have given an even lower rating.
 Poorly designed, way too frustrating June 27, 2000
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Despite good reviews for other JumpStart programs, the 5th grade one is very frustrating. The opening scene gives no guidance for what the child is supposed to do and the dialog between the two characters is way over their heads. My daughter was totally frustrated and lost all enthusiasm for trying this program.
Forget-About-It December 27, 2002
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
We have several JumpStart levels, and so I thought 5th grade would be okay, but I was wrong! It starts out with a looong cartoon intro. Then you are forced to go through a politically correct interview of a "rat" before you can start with a crossword puzzle that stopped us cold. One of the questions it asked in level one (the easiest) is who is (1548) the Venitian artist of the same town? So, we had to go through the "museum" of baroque art, look at every picture, read every description, and still didn't fine the answer! I took art history in college, not in the 5th grade! Now I can't even return the ...junk!
The worst Jumpstart product made April 9, 2005
D. DESANA (Grosse Ile, MI)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Our family has over 10 titles and 7 years of experience with Jumpstart products. Do NOT waste your money on this. My child spends more time navigating the product than learning. There is way too much emphasis on Art (defined only as painting). Finally, the geography content is fine but the globe doesn't move to get to the right answer/continent.
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