Calculate

Description & Goals

Calculate
Status:	unknown
Version:	unknown
Base:	Yes
Source:	git
l10n:	missing
Contributors
Reinier Heeres, Miguel Alvarez

Summary

The calculate activity provides a generic calculator. The interface provides the simplest functions directly and should therefore be easy to use for the youngest children. However, it does support more complicated math and variables.

Goals

Teach children some math

Collaboration

Collaboration is not included yet, but will be in the near future. It will be possible for children to share the equations they've written, so that they can be viewed and used by others.

Visual Design

Design by Eben

Screenshots

Screen shot at 2007-07-15

(note that the text on the buttons is very readable on an XO, but looks a little small here)

Development

Feature Requests

RPN mode needed for scientific calculations.--Mokurai 22:01, 19 May 2007 (EDT) (not sure whether this still applies to the new version Rwh 10:27, 15 July 2007 (EDT))

I suggest that a better solution would be to allow multistep calculations with saved 'variables'. This can do everything that RPN enables, but is easier to teach to children, closer to the global standard language of mathematics, and it leads directly to programming as a logical outgrowth of multistep calculations.

Source

git

RPMs

• none available