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Today, computers are involved in almost every aspect of life. Working with this cartridge can help your child become familiar with computers and their operation. Since computer-enhanced instruction is more common in the classroom every year, this knowledge can give your child an important advantage.
===Playing Demolition Division===
When the game begins, four green tanks are displayed along the left edge of the screen. Each tank has a different division problem on its side. Four blue guns, each behind a red barricade, are displayed along the right edge of of the screen. As a tank advances toward a gun, it makes a low sound, and fires a shot that crumbles part of that gun's barricade.
The object of Demolition Division is to "equalize" the attacking tanks before they reach the guns and destroy them. To do this, your child places the answer to a tank's division problem beside the gun opposing that tank and fires the gun. The gun fires a small blue shell that arcs toward the tank. When the answer beside the gun is correct, the shell equalizes the tank, and a hit is scored.
Equalizing a tank causes it to explode into a pile of green rubble. After a tank is equalized, another tank with a new problem takes its place at the left edge of the screen, and the attack continues.
====When Your Child Misses a Problem====
When the number displayed beside a gun is not the correct answer to a
tank's problem, the gun shell explodes without hitting the tank, and a
miss is scored. If a tank is not destroyed before it reaches a gun, the tank
blasts the gun into a pile of blue rubble.
After a gun is destroyed, the screen turns black for a few seconds. Then the display returns, and four tanks with new and different division problems appear along the left edge of the screen. Simultaneously, four guns with intact barricades appear on the right edge of the screen, and the game continues. If three guns are destroyed before the game's time limit expires, the game is over.
====Correct Answer Clues====
Demolition Division has a special "hint" feature that provides clues to correct answers. If your child displays an answer that is too low, the gun's shell explodes in front of the tank. Displaying an answer that is too high causes the gun's shell to explode behind the tank.
