SV: [Tuxmath-devel] Great software! But ...

[Haakon M. E. <ha...@nh...>]

Hello, Julien!

I signed up on the developers list a few weeks ago, because I wanted to
do a Norwegian translation of Tuxmath for Windows. I tried with the help
of Bill Kendrick - the author - to persuade my development environment,
Dev-C++ from www.bloodshed.net, to compile, but no luck. Since then, I
haven't had time to look into it any further.

In my correspondance with Bill, I too raised the question of manually
setting the speed of the arrival of new questions, and he said he would
include this.

http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/tuxmath_opts.png shows the development
version, so you can use this if want to limit the operators without
editing the source code directly.

The first part of getting sums within a given range is easy. In
Microsoft Excel you can do this to create a random whole number within a
range:
=3DWHOLE_NUMBER(RANDOM()*(B-A)+A)

It should be something like this in C:

/* Declaring the variables, a and b sets the range */
int a,b;
float random_number_within_range;
int whole_number;

/* Generating random number within the range set by A and B */


/* Converting the random float into a whole number */
whole_number =3D (int) random_number_within_range;

Then you need some way to split the result into two integer values for
addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Perhaps this is very
easy, as the randomness is already catered for by the initial "sum", but
it requires some more thought - at least for me ;-)


Yours sincerely,


Haakon Meland Eriksen





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Fra: Julien Michielsen [mailto:ju...@be...]=20
Sendt: 22. mai 2003 10:22
Til: Tuxmath devel list
Emne: [Tuxmath-devel] Great software! But ...


I'd like to start with a compliment for the develloppers of tuxmath. I
used to think very few software was available for kids, but the programs
I found at newbreedsoftware really look great, and do fill much of my
need for childrensoftware.

Having said this I hope I may make a few points I'm less happy with. I
got tuxmath for our sun, who's in his first year of calculus. I was able
to strip down some of the higher operators (--operator add --operator
subtract only gives adding and subtrating sums), but still the sums are
too difficult for him when the outcomes are higher than ten (8+7, etc.).
I wonder if it would be possible to set a higher limit to the results of
the sums, such that no sums would be asked surpassing a certain fixed
level. I looked into the code, but was not able to find the part which
generates the numbers for the sums. (I should add here that my knowledge
of C is elementary.)

I looked if there is an option to slow down the arrivel of the comets,
but did not find it. Might this be possible, and how could I achieve it?

The version I downloaded was for english speekers. How hard/easy is it
to translate the terms to an other language? I'm Dutch, and prefer to
educate our children in our own language.  I'm quite willing to help
solving the questions I asked, and make modifications available for the
larger public.

(In addition I'll spread the word of these programs: on linux lists and
on the school our kids attend)


--=20
Julien Michielsen
ju...@be...




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