Download full colour descriptive catalogues (pdf) with pricing, licences, etc.:
Download: Software for Children (all Levels) (PDF 3.0 mb)
Download: Software and Peripheral Equipment for Teachers, Small Business and IT Managers
( PDF 6.0 mb)
Purchase Printed Catalogues for $20.00 including P&P (~300 pages)
NZ Freephone: 0800 335 338
Prices in NZ dollars. Excludes GST (NZ only) and freight
Our new Destination MiniBytes offer teachers an easy and flexible way to use our specially chosen high quality Destination Series lesson, practice and workout activities in school.
Introduces and supports the teaching of key mathematical concepts through a comprehensive learning resource. All CD’s are easy-to-use and fully networkable.
Destination Maths MiniBytes can be used for whole class teaching, via a whiteboard or in one-to-one or group sessions.Learning benefits:
* Easy-to-use
* Flexible use/class or group
* Whiteboard Friendly
* Facilitates individual, paired or group working and sharing of projects
Age 5 to 11
Destination Maths: Fractions & Decimals
For children at any level of education, learning the "how to" of mathematics and the "why" of doing mathematics are both important. The design of this CD-ROM reflects a careful balance between skills and concepts and their applications. Students will learn to recognise unit fractions and use them to find factions of shapes and numbers. They will be introduced to factions and decimals.
Features:
* Fractions - 1/3,1/4,1/5,1/10
* Fractions - 2/3,5/8
* Identify simple fractional parts of a whole number
* Working with mixed numbers
* Highly engaging characters motivate and guide children through activitiesEducational Outcomes:
Recognising a fraction
Working with mixed numbers
Expressing fractions in lowest terms
Proper fractions
Improper fractions
Equivalent fractions
Ordering and rounding fractions
Destination Maths: Fractions & Decimals : Site Licence including media
Age 4 to 6
This Cd focuses on the importance of mastering skills and concepts and then applying them to solve meaningful problems. The focus is on learning through problem solving and discovery.
Covers Length, weight and Clock and Calendar time. This programme is designed for lower primary school students as it introduces them to basic maths concepts. Designed specifically for nonreaders, this unit teaches the important mathematics concepts and skills student will need. The Destination MiniBytes series offers teachers an easy and flexible way to use our specially chosen high quality Destination Series lesson, practice and workout activities in school.
Features:
* Length - Longer, Shorter
* Money - Coin recognition, 5p, 10p, 20p
* Time - Hour, half hour, calendar, days of the week in order
* Weight - Heavier, Lighter
* Highly engaging characters motivate and guide children through activities
Ideal for student who benefit from carefully constructed explanations and additional step by step instructions.
Continuity of learning and teaching.
Trackable pupil activities measure attainment.
Facilitates individual, paired or group working and sharing of projects.
Whiteboard compatible.Educational Outcomes:
Begin to read o'clock time.
Begin to know the days of the week in order.
Begin to understand and use ordinal numbers in different contexts.
Understanding of weight - heavier or lighter.
Understanding of length - longer or shorter.
Destination Maths: Measures: 4 - 6 : Site Licence including media
Age 5 to 7
This Cd focuses on the importance of mastering skills and concepts and then applying them to solve meaningful problems. This programme is designed for lower primary school students as it introduces them to basic maths concepts. Students will learn the use to read the vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity and estimate, measure and compare lengths, masses and capacities, using standard units (m,cm,kg,litre)
Our new Destination MiniBytes offer teachers an easy and flexible way to use our specially chosen high quality Destination Series lesson, practice and workout activities in school.
Features:
* Money-Identify 5p, 10p and 20p
* Length - Measures standard and non standard
* Calendar/Time - Investigate days of the week, analogue and digital clocks
* Weight - Use non standard units to compare weights, arrange objects in order
* Highly engaging characters motivate and guide children through activities
Educational Outcomes:
Use language as more or less, longer and shorter, heavier or lighter..to compare quantities.
Read the time to the hour, half hour or quarter hour on analogue clocks.
Use and begin to read the vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity.
Destination Maths: Measures: 5 to 7 : Site Licence including media
Age 7 to 11
The presentation of each unit takes full advantage of the dynamic and interactive capabilities of the computer technology. Animations, speech and sound effects invite children to participate in an intrinsically motivational environment. As students progress through they learn important skills in telling the time, problem solving, reading timetables, and measurement.Features:
* Money - Recognise and use decimal notation, combinations of notes/coins, change (currency GBP)
* Temperature - Compare Celsius and Fahrenheit, problem solving
* Time - Minutes, before and after the hour, start time, elapsed time
* Area - Find the area of a shape, standard and non standard units
* Highly engaging characters motivate and guide children through activities
Educational Outcomes:
Read and begin to write the vocabulary related to time.
Use units of time and know the relationships between them (second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year)
Use am and pm
Read simple timetables and use a calendar.
Read time from an analogue clock
Destination Maths: Measures: 7 to 11: Site Licence including media
Age 5 to 7
Features:
* Counting from 10 to 100
* Counting by twos, fives and tens
* Place value and ordering, tens and units
* Addition and subtraction 10 to 100
* Multiplication and Division 10 to 100
* Highly engaging characters motivate and guide children through activities
Educational Outcomes:
Counting, properties of numbers and number sequences.
Count on and back in ones from any small number and in tens from 100 and back to zero.
Read and write whole numbers to at least 100 in figures and words.
Destination Maths: Number 5 to 7: Site Licence including media
Age 7 to 11
Applying mathematical rules and procedures to solve real problems shows children the versatility and power of maths. Children are repeat5edly led through questions and interactive problems that build problem solving skills, reasoning ability, competency in representing mathematical ideas and an awareness of mathematics' connection to other experiences.
Features:
* Place value, 100's tens and Units
* Comparing and ordering to 1000
* Estimating, Addition and Subtraction to 9,999
* Multiplication, Division facts
* Highly engaging characters motivate and guide children through activities
Educational Outcomes:
Understanding multiplication and division facts.
Counting, properties of numbers and number sequences.
Mental calculation strategies.
Order whole numbers to at least 1000 and position them on a number line.
Destination Maths: Number 7 to 11: Site Licence including media
Age 4 to 7
Features:
* Recognise 2D and 3D shapes
* Sequences and Direction
* Simple tables and graphics
* Highly engaging characters motivate and guide children through activities
Destination Maths: Shape 4 to 7: Site Licence including media
Age 5 to 7
Features:
* 3D Shapes
* Volume
* Tables and Graphs
* Highly engaging characters motivate and guide children through activities
Destination Maths: Shape 5 to 7: Site Licence including media
Age 7 to 11
Begin to know that angles are measured in degrees and discover right angles. Understand the operation of multiplication as repeated addition or as describing an array and begin to understand division as grouping or sharing. Refers to properties such as reflective symmetry (2D), the number or shapes of faces, the number of sides/edges and vertices, whether sides/edges are same length, whether or not angles are right angels. Identify right angles in 2-D shapes and the environment. Teaches students to recognise equilateral and isosceles triangles.Features:
* Co-ordinates
* Symmetry
* Triangles
* Angles
* Highly engaging characters motivate and guide children through activities
Easy-to-use
Flexible use/class or group
Whiteboard FriendlyEducational Outcomes:
Area
Naming and measuring angles
Number patterns and properties
Defining complementary and supplementary angles.
Classifying angles by sides
Coordinate geometry and algebra
Symmetry and transformation
Destination Maths: Shape 7 to 11: Site Licence including media
Age 7 to 11
Destination Maths: Entire Collection: School Site Licence
OS Code:
Win98
WinXP
NOT OSX
