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MATH IN A WHOLE NEW WAY, IN THAT GALAXY
FAR, FAR AWAY - LUCAS LEARNING LTD.® RELEASES STAR WARS®
MATH: JABBA'S GAME GALAXY™
Engaging Activities Go Beyond Traditional Math Drills to Build and Sharpen Mathematics Skills for Children Age Six to Nine |
| San Rafael, Calif.
- August 15, 2000 - Watto, the infamous junk shop dealer of Mos Espa,
is looking for a few good pilots to help rid the galaxy of space junk.
But first you'll need to build a new ship! Star Wars Math:
Jabba's Game Galaxy, from Lucas Learning Ltd., seamlessly integrates
basic arithmetic skills and math principles into exciting games of
strategy and logic. Available August 2000 for PC and Macintosh, Star
Wars Math: Jabba's Game Galaxy joins the library of Lucas
Learning award-winning titles, focused on providing children learning
opportunities through exploration and discovery. After crash landing on Tatooine, players enter the world of Jabba's Game Galaxy. Here they challenge favorite Star Wars characters such as Jabba the Hutt and Sebulba to math-based games of skill and strategy, earning credits as they go. In Ratts' Race, for example, players wind their way through an intriguing board game, solving addition, subtraction, multiplication, equivalencies and geometry problems along the way. A two-player option allows for games to be played against a fellow earth opponent. Once players have earned credits, they can commence rebuilding their ship. Kids use their credits to purchase parts from Watto in his shop, and then continue on to the hangar to construct and customize their ship. When the ship is ready, kids navigate and rid the galaxy of dangerous space junk and asteroids in a math focused action-arcade activity. Each of the math games in Star Wars Math: Jabba's Game Galaxy supports the content standards for primary grades developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and are modeled after kid-proven math games and traditional strategy games from around the world. About Lucas Learning Lucas Learning Ltd. develops and publishes engaging interactive entertainment and educational software that provides learning opportunities through exploration and discovery. Based in San Rafael, California, as well as on the Internet at www.lucaslearning.com, Lucas Learning is one of six companies in the Lucas group, which include Lucasfilm Ltd., Lucas Digital Ltd., Lucas Licensing Ltd., Lucas Online and LucasArts Entertainment Company. |
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