FSF in education

[Alexander Rieder]

On Wednesday 08 August 2012 10:13:20 Melissa Mendonça wrote:
> 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

Hi,
this sounds like a great use-case for Cantor and an even better opportunity to 
gain insight in its current shortcomings. I'd love to work with you on making 
Cantor a better tool for teaching.
As I am a student and wrote Cantor to fit my personal needs, it would be greate 
to gain insight to your needs from a teachers prespective.

best regards,
Alexander Rieder


> 
> 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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