[OLPC-SF] Pilot update from the field

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Hi Cherry,

the topic of lack of activities for learning / practicing Mathematics
has come up repeatedly over the past few years.

Here in Austria some people at Graz University of Technology in
collaboration with the teachers of the Austrian OLPC pilot project have
been working on an activity called "ReckonPrimer" for practicing basic
Maths in the past year. It's still a bit crude in terms of the usability
and has a couple of other issues but it's generally well thought out and
quite popular with the pupils here in Austria.

You can download the .xo file (which isn't based on the very latest
code!) at http://www.ist.tugraz.at/projects/isac/rp/ReckonPrimer-6.xo,
find more information about the project at
http://www.ist.tugraz.at/projects/isac/rp/ or access the code at
http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/rp

In case you do try it out or have teachers use it I'd be very interested
in your feedback as the project will be continued once university starts
again in October and I'm currently in somewhat of a brain-storming
period for this.

Thanks,
Christoph

Am 16.07.2010 21:49, schrieb Cherry Withers:
> 5) Concern was raised for lack of activities for Math. Come September
> they need to be covering Fractions.

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Christoph Derndorfer
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e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com