FSF in education

[Melissa Mendonça]

Hello,

This might be the time for me to jump into the conversation. I'm here
because Tomaz basically forced me to join (lol), I'm a professor at
the Mathematics Department at the Federal University of Santa Catarina
(Brazil), and I'm also very interested in these topics. However, I'm
more interested in the higher education part and I see great potential
for Cantor as a report/assignment generating tool. For example, I
teach programming classes in the math department (using MATLAB/Octave)
and my students could use Cantor to deliver code along with the
results and comments.

I'm very interested and could help in the technical side (development,
although I'm not a very experienced C++/Qt programmer, more
Fortran/Python/C/Matlab).

Anyway, Marcelo feel free to contact me in Portuguese if you need anything.

Cheers,

Melissa

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Marcelo Pires <marte032 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello, okay? I am a student of mathematics, and would like to know your
>> opinion about mathematics and software in the world. Here in Brazil, the
>> government adopts free software in schools and universities, without the
>> prospect of building its own technology. Use free software, only to be free,
>> without a high cost to the government.
>> I'm with a thesis project where I want to discuss mathematics and Free
>> Software, as in fact be using free software in teaching basic math to higher
>> mathematics.
>>
>> I await your response.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> --
>> Att. Marcelo Pires da Silva
>>
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>
> Hi Marcelo!
> It's great that you're interested in this, mathematics, education and
> free software is a huge subject.
>
> In KDE Edu we have some pieces of software that fit your requirements.
> Maybe Cantor like Tomaz said and also KAlgebra, Kmplot and if you look
> a bit further in the future Khipu. Khipu is specially interesting
> though, because it's specially aimed for teachers who want to teach
> mathematics in class, using the computer. In this case, for displaying
> wonderful plots.
>
> Said that, it would be interesting if you take a look at what we've
> done and kickstart a bit the discussion regarding the subjects that
> concern you, I'm pretty sure it can be interesting for all of us!
>
> Cheers!
> Aleix
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Melissa Weber Mendonça
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"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing you don't
put tomato in fruit salad."