![]() Each facet is linked, or integrated, to the others, so that, for example, a check written to a Mexican earthquake relief fund is automatically filed in the proper budget and tax categories. With the original program, whose features have been retained, the user could manage a checkbook and detailed budget, track personal net worth, manage a stock and bond portfolio, estimate income tax and plot optimal tax strategies, store memos on a daily reminder pad and planning calendar, calculate life insurance needs, and calculate a broad range of financial chores, including analysis of investment property, loans and bond yields and retirement planning. Other registered owners can get the update for $50. 3 can get a free update, as can earlier owners who paid $40 extra for free updates and Mr. for the I.B.M., which will be in stores next month (the new Apple version is 1.0). All summer he and his merry band of Meca programmers have been reviewing comments from users, heeding their suggestions and criticisms, and working on Version 2.0 of M.Y.M. Tobias, the best-selling author of ''The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need,'' may be rich, but he is certainly not idle. 06880, telephone 20) was already the best personal finance program on the market, going far beyond the basic checkbook and budget programs to offer sound financial advice and strategies. PC's and Apple II's, from Micro Education Corporation of America, 285 Riverside Avenue, Westport, Conn. Students search for treasure and learn research skills, geography and history.Īndrew Tobias's Managing Your Money ($199 for I.B.M. * Treasure Hunter ($39.95 for Apple II grades 3-8 from Grolier Electronic Publishing). The computer pronounces letters as they are typed, asks for letters and gently corrects with verbal hints when necessary. * Talking Teacher ($34.95 for Commodore disk preschool through first grade from Imagic). The computer adjusts automatically to the right level of difficulty for each user, up to 25 students. * Stickybear Math ($39.95 for Apple II, $29.95 for Commodore disk, requires color grades 1-3 from Weekly Reader Family Software). A ''stimulating and useful introduction to robotics,'' computer chips and electronic circuits. * Robot Odyssey ($49.95 for Apple II's grades 6-12 from The Learning Company). Teaches memorization techniques developed by experts for use with foreign languages, English, physics and history. and Commodore disk grades 6 and up from Designware). Budding journalists can write, design and print newspapers complete with pictures and banner headlines. PC and PCjr with color graphics cards grades 6 and up from Springboard Software). * Newsroom ($59.95 for Apple II and I.B.M. Basic math skills are made fun, and parents can enter additional sets of problems. PC and PCjr, Commodore disk and Atari disk grades 1-6 from Davidson). * Math Blaster ($49.95 for Apple II and Macintosh, I.B.M. By guiding five friendly spiders as they build their webs, students develop better logic and problem-solving skills. * Logic Builders ($39.95 for Apple II's, $29.95 for Commodore 64 and 124 grades 4-8 from Scholastic Software). ''A super word game'' that is ''great for teaching vocabulary and rhyming skills.'' * Hinky Pinky Game ($39.95 for Apple II's, all ages, from Learning Well). Six games help young students learn to distinguish among objects of differing size, shape and color. * Comparison Kitchen ($29.95 for Apple II's, for preschoolers through second grade, from DLM). These programs, which can be obtained from Evanston Educators ($1 for catalogue) or from the software publisher, are the following: Of the more than 150 programs from various companies that are offered by Evanston Educators, 10 were recently singled out for exceptional excellence. Margaret Lurie, president of Evanston Educators, said the programs must be easy for a child to use must encourage cooperation, play, problem-solving and thinking skills must give positive reinforcement, and must come with documentation simple enough for even a parent to understand. (915 Elmwood Avenue, Evanston, Ill., 60202, telephone 31), a mail-order company that sells only ''family'' software that has passed muster by an advisory board of educators, children and other specialists. One solution is offered by Evanston Educators Inc. How, then, does one select reliable programs that instruct as well as entertain? Few parents or teachers have the time or money to evaluate each new product for educational and price value. A random sampling has revealed many, perhaps most, of these programs to be mind-numbing duds that ought to be flunked. ![]() HUNDREDS of new programs are introduced into the educational software market each year.
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