LeapPad: Leap 2 Math - "The Great Dune Buggy Race" Interactive Book and Cartridge
Leap gathers parts to build and race his own dune buggy in this  interactive storybook designed to teach fundamental math skills to primary-age  LeapPad users. The text is not particularly engaging, and the computer-generated  illustrations are so busy that they are confusing to look at. But the math games  are the real point of the book, and they are interesting and well designed. They  begin with simple tasks, such as shape identification and telling left from  right, but progress to include more complex tasks, such as counting money,  taking measurements, counting by twos, sorting and categorizing, adding and  subtracting, and reading maps. Hidden picture searches, notoriously popular with  primary-age children, are prominently featured. Kids are encouraged to count the  found objects and classify them by type of material. The book also emphasizes  the prevalence of numbers in everyday life by making clocks, signs, and license  plates prominent features of the illustrations.--Elisabeth Fredrickson,  mother of three and former English teacher