LeapPad: Leap 1 Math - "Birthday Hunt" Interactive Book and Cartridge
Leap goes on a birthday hunt in this engaging book designed to teach  fundamental math skills to kindergarten-age LeapPad users. The rhyming text  leads Leap from place to place--the zoo, the park, the junkyard, and more--where  he gathers hidden number clues that will open the combination safe at the end of  the book, revealing his present. (In case kids lose track, all the clues are  repeated on the last page.) Simple math games teach number identification (in  word and number form), counting from 1 to 20, shape identification, simple sums,  sorting and categorizing, patterns and sequences, and counting money. Unlike  some electronic learning toys that simply give kids abstract math problems, this  one offers effective graphics with visual clues, such as grouped objects and  circular arrangements of numbers that help children grasp the concepts and solve  the problems.--Elisabeth Fredrickson, mother of three and former English  teacher