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This program is an example of good practice in both the computing and educational fields. It is meant to give practice in the very early stages of number and covers one to one correspondence, symbol recognition, ordering and comparison.

All of these stages are of major importance to the pre-school and infant school child and they could do far worse than to practise using this program.

As with all software aimed at this level there should be an adult or an older child to read the early prompts and set the difficulty level, but this is extremely easy to do. One little criticism is that there is no end to each game - they just carry on until the ESCAPE key is pressed.

There are four games in the program and all have excellent graphics and reasonable sound, which unfortunately you cannot turn off or even down! The instructions set new standards - just the right length.

One final quibble is that the BREAK key is set to flush memory. This seems rather drastic, but the standard of error-trapping is otherwise excellent. This is one of very few programs I would recommend to parents and schools alike.

D.C.