Robot Kitchen

The Robot Kitchen is one of the activities in the first floor in JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain. It is designed to teach fractions and measurement.

In order to open the door to the kitchen, the user has to solve a combination lock using addition, subtraction and multiplication. The numbers are in the tiles. The up arrow will increase the number. The down arrow will decrease the number. Once inside, the user has to feed the robot Mort using metric, molecular and standard (referred to here as "common") forms of measurement with a small conveyor belt apparatus in the center of the kitchen while toppings appear on other belts on the wall. Once all the correct ingredients are supplied, the conveyor belt will move faster and Mort will consume the food, including the bowl.

When Mort is fed correctly, he'll smile and complement the user. He'll reward the user with either a Mission Clue or Invention Points. If Mort isn't fed correctly, he'll get sick and/or suffer an allergic reaction. He'll complain & recommend more suggestions. The user must start over.

Difficulty level differences

 * Level one: Addition
 * Levels two and three: Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication

Dialogue of Mort

 * "I'm so glad you're here! My blood sugar's dropping!"
 * "Hey! Hey! Hey! I'm growing weak with hunger!"
 * "Oh, please hurry! I'm faint with hunger!"
 * "You added/multiply the numbers correctly, but the results are too big to fit on one tile. So we need to carry this extra amount to the next column. Okay, now the extra amount in the ones/tens place has been carried over to the tens/hundreds place."
 * "It looks like the number on the bottom it too big to be subtracted from the number on the top. That means we'll have to borrow. Ten tens/ones have borrowed to the hundreds/tens column and added to the tens/ones column. Now you can subtract the numbers from the top column."