Leap Frog - Math Circus
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Movie Reviews of Leap Frog - Math Circus
Movie Review: Great material for kids
Summary: 4 Stars
My son likes it so much, I think it is a great stuffMovie Review: Great DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
A friend with a three year old told us about this product and we purchased it. Wow! Our three year old girl kept wanting to watch it over and over. We used the DVD along with us talking about numbers and she was doing great. Before pre-school started she was able to add and subtract numbers between 0 - 10.
Movie Review: Great Series
Summary: 4 Stars
I love these Leap Frog DVD's. I don't think this one is as good as the Reading/Letter one's but it is still good. My daughter (3 years old) doesn't stay in front of the tv watching it like she does the other ones. I think it is a little hard for her so she doesn't pay as much attention. The ideas go pretty fast for this age I think. A little hard for them to grasp all at once. I think she will get it over time though.Movie Review: They have certainly got some explaining to do
Summary: 2 Stars
Parents and children who loved the other Leap Frog DVDs about letters, words and reading will find this one disappointing.
Advertised as beginning math, this one is mixed up in its focus, spending quite a bit of time on recognizing the numbers from 0 to 10 (especially zero) and relating them to "quidgets", then quickly jumping to addition and subtraction without sufficient explanation or introduction of the concepts. Starting with simple counting, by the end of the 35 minutes, they're showing us ten times tables up to one hundred.
Very young children will probably like the repetitive cowboy "numbers" song, and may even stick around for the "circus" acts and accompanying slapstick routines, but the concepts advance too quickly for this age group. Kids who already know their numbers won't learn anything new from the beginning of the presentation, but then again, they probably won't learn anything from the rest of it either.
Clearly one should not expect kids to learn math in 35 minutes, which makes you wonder what they were thinking when they made this one. A more sensible approach would be to have different DVDs for each level, as they did in the reading series, so that they could spend more time going into the nitty-gritty, and making it fun.
This one is a rush job, and was not properly thought out for the intended audience. Definitely not a tool you should count on to introduce your kids to math.
Amanda Richards, May 4, 2006
Movie Review: If they're going to watch videos, it might as well be about Math!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great video, nothing objectionable. My 3 year old sings along with it. Within a week, my son could recognize all numbers 1-10.