In an ancient pyramid setting, students gather clues, complete challenges, and enter The Treasure Room where math skills are the key to finding The Hidden Treasure of Al-Jabr. Students can play in either Adventure or Practice mode. Throughout the program different characters provide guidance to playing the game. On-screen tools, such as the Notepad, are available for students to paste clues, take notes, and get advice for solving problems. The Equation Tool lets students try out their math statements before applying them in the game.
Students improve their understanding of systems of equations.
Easy level problems use inequalities and whole numbers, harder problems involve percentage, ratio, and multiplicative relationships. Students add objects to a scale to keep it balanced. Students interpret statements about the objects and apply their knowledge of like variables and substitution of variables to add the right objects to the scale. Easy problems involve functions of one variable. Harder problems involve functions of two variables.