[OLPC_Boston] Meet-up notes

[Seth Woodworth]

Calculator?  I bet 4th grader's aren't allowed them.

We would all learn more if we did mental math or if we had abacuses (abaci).

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> @mel : Everyone should learn 4th grade math.  how about a math
> tutorial each week? you're allowed one calculator and one elementary
> school student at your desk, and each session ends with a set of
> contest problems.   that would fit nicely with jgay's
> contest-problem-collection project. SJ
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org> wrote:
>> I took some brief notes during the OLPCorps students introductions.
>> I've added them to the meeting notes page:
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Boston/Monthly_Meet-ups/031709#Seth.27s_notes
>>
>> Please feel free to add more information, correct spelling of names,
>> add contact info etc.
>>
>> --Seth
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the notes, Diane! They're very useful for folks who couldn't make
>>> it (and folks like me who arrived too late to find out you'd moved to 1cc
>>> ;).
>>>
>>> Some thoughts, short because I'm coming down with rsi...
>>>
>>> olpcorps groups - if you want some practice working with local deployments
>>> (and possibly even starting your own next year), holler to this list -
>>> there's the cambridge XO deployment and some budding Sugar pilots in the
>>> western burbs that need help.
>>> teacher's group - brilliant! would love to hear more. you might be
>>> interested in the 4th gr math project,
>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/fourthgrademath/2009-March/000100.html -
>>> we should also get Sandra's curriculum team to post more about their
>>> activities here, they may want to partner up.
>>>
>>> I'll be working on local deployments in cambridge tomorrow and welcome
>>> company online or in person (ask if you're interested / have questions -
>>> I'll send the list a better "what's up" later today) - Rick and Elsa will
>>> already be joining me (yay!) and the more, the merrier.
>>>
>>> --Mel
>>>
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