Michael, > There are no plans for an official OLPC spreadsheet activity. At > least, none that I have heard of (or could imagine). Largely because 6 > year olds shouldn't have access to it.
Can you explain why they shouldn't? Spreadsheet is a good way to experiment numbers and (usually) provides simple rules to manipulate them. Thinking about patterns and relationships, it can be a pretty good tool. A built-in graph feature would be a plus, but it is also good way to make them "draw" a graph by usign each cells as pixels. Making a graph feature should give them better understanding what a graph is. (For the making graph part, many kind of graphs can be done in Etoys (and TurtleArt) by using the pen feature. Etoys has a "holder" object that can hold a sequence of numbers as text, so you can do very rudimentary spread sheet like thing by yourself...) -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
