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Claimed to be a step-by-step guide to learning to tell the time, there are three steps, starting with hours, then minutes and finally the time on a digital clock. Each is further divided into demonstration and then at least one type of question: typing in time shown, stopping the clock at a particular time and adding an hour onto the time when stopping the clock.

Screen displays are pleasant if uninspiring although on occasions they seem a little cluttered. There are nursery tunes at the beginning and you collect mice for each right answer. Stopping the clock on a particular time is not all that easy, however, and tolerance is not adjustable, so very young children could become frustrated easily.

My other major criticism is that the examples are too long and lack variety. One expects a program like this to be used with a parent or teacher for at least the first few sessions, so there is no real need for long explanatory sections. Adults should have read the documentation and tried the program themselves first.

D.C.