Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Poll and a release?

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Friday 05 October 2001  6:22, Dave Lopata wrote:

Hey Dave, thanks for the comment... It's been forever since we've had /any/ 
comments on the option screen ;-)

> 	Since I'm not actually a teacher, I'm not sure if you want
> to hear from me.  Also, I'm not entirely clear what grade levels you
> want targetted.  We home school my 2 & 5 year olds, with preschool & 1st
> grade level math.  In the curriculum we're using (mainly Saxon Publishing),
> I think Tux Math would be more valuable if we could:
>
> 	1.  Select Minimum & Maximum numbers to use in the equations.
> 	2.  Restrict the operators to specific combinations
> 		(only addition, only subtraction, add/sub, et cetera)

We actually do have a mock-up screenshot of a possible options screen here:
http://www.geekcomix.com/dm/tuxmath/options-screen.png

This has these options in it. We've been trying to figure out if there's 
anything else that's needed as well. (We really don't want to do like what I 
did in Tux Typing with respect to optons and then have the decision come back 
and bite us in the butt a year or so down the line ;-)

> 	For my preschooler, it would be valuable to have a pre-math for
> counting. . .So each failing creature might have some number of dots or
> shapes on them (like pips on dice).

That is a very good idea.  I really like it.

How would we integrate the input with that? Could we expect a pre-schooler to 
type a number?

Or, is the game engine general enough that we could instead have the child 
tap one button X number of times (counting out the dots)? By this I mean, if 
they see a shape which signified "4" (with four dots or whatnot) could we 
make it so the child could tap out four taps to give the answer? (I haven't 
looked at the engine in a while, Bill, so I don't know how much of a pain 
something like that could be.... I'm really just thinking aloud here ;-)

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