I'll preface this by saying I have a meeting schedule for Monday where I should get some clarifications abou the project as a whole.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:02:46AM -0800, Susan Addington wrote: :Software: :For middle grades math (ages 10 and up) the spreadsheet can be very :valuable for making the transition from arithmetic to algebra. (This :isn't very well known, but I'm working on it.) And a dynamic geometry :program: I think that GeoGebra does the best job of any software, :even commercial ones, for connecting geometry and algebra. Apparently :java needs to be installed separately (from what I have heard from :this list.) The drawing programs are also good for various things in :math. Thanks I'll checkout GeoGebra, and consider the promenence of a spreadsheet application. :But, again, it's hard to say without knowing the people. Do they have :lots of paper and pencil? Slates and chalk? Pocket calculators? That's the key,a nd what I hope to get from my Monday meeting :I :notice that 95% of the adult population is literate (according to the :CIA website.) There's also been a long history of coups, which I found surprising. The latest was on 2000 and the investigations and trials are still very much in the news http://www.fijitimes.com on any given day usually has a headline relating to it. So tehre's some other back story that I don't fully understand from here. Hopefully I'll have more information and more specific questions next week. Thanks all for your help thus far. -Jon -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel