[K12OSN] tuxmath---was Off topic browser issue

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Fri Feb 20 17:54:46 UTC 2004


On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 08:34:30AM +1100, Les Bell wrote:
> That's been my experience, too. Tux Math was the first program I installed
> on our school LAN while experimenting with how to add Start menu shortcuts
> to people's profiles under Samba. Unfortunately no-one uses it because the
> little kids find some of the questions much too hard, and the older kids
> find 1+1 too easy. Perhaps if it posed questions based on the times tables
> the kids are working on, plus a proportion of revision material as well?

Heh, EXACTLY. :^)  The initial releases were "look, the game engine works!"
With the hopes that teachers would chime in on /exactly/ how the difficulty
and so forth should come out.

Feel free to hop on the tuxmath mailing list at sf.net/projects/tuxmath
;)

-bill!





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