Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Math Command

[David B. <db...@ta...>]

Hi Hamish,

Thanks for you interest in tuxmath.  I am currently the primary 
programmer/maintainer.

On Wednesday 13 September 2006 04:06, Hamish Budge wrote:
> Hi
> I use Math command on an Ubuntu distro and love the option menu, where
> you can configure the max total and limit it to addition/subtraction
> only etc.
> My 6 year old boy still needs further limits to the difficulty, an add
> 1 only or add 2 only up to a max of 5 or 10 would be even more
> fantastic for our infants.

Tuxmath now reads and writes config files, so you have complete control over 
the questions to be asked as long as you don't mind some very simple use of a 
text editor.  A very recent version has just been uploaded to Debian 
unstable - since you are using Ubuntu, you should be able to very easily 
upgrade to it by adding the relevant line to your apt sources.list file 
(/etc/apt/sources.list):

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

Then "apt-get install tuxmath" should give you a current build.  After you 
runt the program the first time, there should be a directory in your home 
called "./tuxmath" with a file called "options" in it.  The options file is 
well-commented.  Edit it as desired, save it, start tuxmath and it should 
reflect your selections.

> I tried a windows version today and it doesn't have any of the options
> that can be seen in linux.

AFAIK all of the Windows builds available in various places on the web are 
very old.  I would be *extremely* interested in getting the current version 
built for Windows, but I don't have much relevant experience and so far have 
not been able to get a Windows build environment set up properly.

> I am the ICT coordinator in the Western Isles (Scotland) and would
> love to see this go out to our schools to help with "mental math(s)".
> Thanks for this great piece of software

Thanks.

-- 
David Bruce