[kde-edu]: New Project - mental arithmetic

[Daniel Kaminsky]

Hi Anne-Marie,

Thanks for your reply.

> We indeed need something like that in KDE-Edu. What would be nice is to have 
> some visuals for kids aged 6 years old or so that start addition (2 apples + 
> 3 oranges, that sort of concept as well a some visual for multiplication, 
> soustractions and division).

Great news. I'm glad that I can give something back to the KDE project. :-)

> If your application is alread in a working state, you can now take the next 
> step which is to import it to kdenonbeta cvs.

Well, it is in a working state, but at the moment it its really ugly (GUI) and 
the code isn't very good too. So give me a few days and I will clean this up 
a little bit...

> I can give you any further 
> guidance in order to do so. kdenonbeta is the place to be before joining 
> another module as it allows you to see what kde development is really about 
> and it also allows you to work with others.

Thanks, that would be very nice.

> If you decide to work further on your application in order to put it in the 
> kdeedu module, I suggest you describe what you've done (maybe some 
> screenshots) and what your ideas are and we could have a brain-storm session 
> to see what would be the best, based on teachers expertise maybe!

At the moment it is pretty basic. You can choose the exercise range (starting 
from 1 to eh really large numbers ;-)). The math operator is chosen by 
random.
In close future (before I copy it to kdenonbeta) I want to add
- statistics
- timing fuctions
- select math operator (so you can train addition only for example)

Basically, I think that pictures instead of numbers are a good idea. But I 
think at the beginning it is not soo important, because this program is 
useful for older kids too. (I began writing it because I am so bad at mental 
arithmetic ;-)).

> Welcome to the Edu team!

Well, thanks a lot. :-)

regards Daniel