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[Tuxmath-devel] TUXMATH

[D P <dlp...@ho...>]

Hey guys,

I am a grade 2 teacher and I have been using TUXMATH. In my classes I do not teach rote-learning. Instead I teach strategies and TUXMATH is a great way for them to apply the strategies in addition and subtraction that I teach.

I have my students use the training section where they start simply by typing in numbers then go things like addition 1-3 and so on. I like how it keeps track of which levels students have completed. This is a great chance for me to see how the students are doing....

The only problem is that some of the levels are really really long. For example, sums to 15 has the students doing over 200. Many students can not do enough of these during the time they have. I would say 75 is a good number.

I get the idea that the levels should get harder, but I am not sure if making the levels longer achieves this.

Is there a way for me to decrease the number the students need to complete?

Thank  you

Don Peterson
Grade 2 teacher
Sidney Elementary

[Tuxmath-devel] TUXMATH

[Fabio C. <fab...@gm...>]

Olá me chamo Fábio Castro
Estou trabalhando com um projeto de pesquisa que envolve o Software TUXMATH

Gostaria de saber se existe tutorial deste software, TUXMATH???
Caso exista enviem-me

Agradeço

Att
Fábio Castro

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] TUXMATH

[David B. <dav...@gm...>]

Hi Don,

> The only problem is that some of the levels are really really long. For
> example, sums to 15 has the students doing over 200. Many students can not
> do enough of these during the time they have. I would say 75 is a good
> number.

We just released a new version (1.9.0), and the lessons have been made
shorter (mostly 30-40 questions).  "Sums to 15" is now 30 questions.
The old versions exhaustively covered every single possibility that
fit the question criteria, whereas now the students just get a random
sampling (randomly selected every time).

Go to http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org for the new version (Windows
binary or source code).  If your school is on Mac, I hope to get
something out fairly soon.

Best,

David Bruce