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palmOne and Handmark are partnering on a new version of their Mobile Mentor and Road Scholar software, Education Essentials CD-ROM for Palm OS devices.

The companies said the palmOne Education Essentials CD-ROM includes more than $249 of commercial software for $50. Educators purchasing Education Essentials also get a free instructor account to fourostudent.net.

According to the companies, the more than 30 applications on the CD-ROM include:

-- ImagiMath 1.0 by ImagiWorks, a program that combines a mathematics visualizer, a full-featured calculator, and a mathematical worksheet and equation solver.

-- MobileDB by Handmark, a database for building custom lists, and viewing and editing any table or spreadsheet-like information.

-- 4.0 Student by Handmark, an organizer that offers a single interface to enter, store and manage information, such as coursework details, assignments and course grades.

-- Assessa Desktop by EyeCues Education Systems, which allows you to create tests on your PC and then send them to Palm OS devices.

-- Quizzler Pro by Pocket Mobility, which lets users create quizzes on the desktop and quiz themselves or students on handheld devices.

Additional applications include Checklist, Teacher's P.E.T, PDA Safe ID, PDA Photo, Scrabble, Monopoly, Tetris, Magic Dogs, Town Compass Data Viewer and Data, WordSmith, PalmReader, PalmReader, DropBook, PrintBoy Documents, ImagiMath, ImagiMath, Find It!, Sketchy, PicoMap , and Fling It.

The Mobile Mentor and Road Scholar software, Education Essentials CD-ROM should to be available in the middle of February from Handmark's website as well as mobileducator.com or mobilescholar.com and other retail and web-based outlets.