How to play Martha Madison: Optics on Mac

Game summary

Imagine transforming your room into an ancient temple full of optical wonder. With Martha Madison: Optics, students solve challenges based on topics such as reflection, refraction, and concave & convex lenses. Explore the free-play optics playground and create new playable levels in the game. Just like real-life scientists, you can work alone or collaboratively to experiment with different approaches. Players are free to make mistakes and try different paths. Martha Madison: Optics is part of a series of physical science games developed to enhance middle school science curriculum and improve outcomes by captivating students and making complex concepts meaningful. Every unit is aligned to standards, backed by research, incorporates best practices in teaching, and leverages innovative game design.

Play Martha Madison: Optics on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Martha Madison: Optics on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Martha Madison: Optics installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Martha Madison: Optics like you would on any PC.
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