Re: [IAEP] New activity: Arithmetic.

2009-10-28 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Caroline, > > > Hi Chris, I had a crazy idea for Arithmetic yesterday. Its a > > wonderful game for the GPA. Its exactly the kind of practice the > > students at GPA need. Its collaborative and other people are a > > huge key to en

Re: [IAEP] New activity: Arithmetic.

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Caroline, > Hi Chris, I had a crazy idea for Arithmetic yesterday. Its a > wonderful game for the GPA. Its exactly the kind of practice the > students at GPA need. Its collaborative and other people are a > huge key to engagement. But as you said it needs a little > something m

Re: [IAEP] New activity: Arithmetic.

2009-10-25 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi Chris, I had a crazy idea for Arithmetic yesterday. Its a wonderful game for the GPA. Its exactly the kind of practice the students at GPA need. Its collaborative and other people are a huge key to engagement. But as you said it needs a little something more to make it fun. This may not be t

Re: [IAEP] New activity: Arithmetic.

2009-08-12 Thread Albert Cahalan
First of all, it's wonderful to finally see this activity. Plenty of words in the UI are not easy, starting with "difficulty". :-) There doesn't seem to be any scratch space to work in, but I'm just looking at the screen shot. Can the user lay out a long division in the standard form? Can the use

[IAEP] New activity: Arithmetic.

2009-08-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Over the last few Sunday afternoons, Ben Schwartz, Michael Stone and I have been hacking on a new activity. It's a collaborative arithmetic quiz, and extensively uses Ben's "groupthink" collaboration module. Here's a link to a bundle: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/latest/4204/add