Hi all,

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> Sounds interesting.
> 
> Sugar/OLPC really needs a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets are powerful learning 
> tools which enable the manipulation and visualisation of data.

The Write activity has a spreadsheet. It is pretty usefull

> Why isn't the spreadsheet for Open Office included? Is it because its 
> footprint is too big or because its not sugarised?

OpenOffice is way too big for this in terms of RAM utilisation.

> In addition to plotting, line, bar, pie and scatter it would be good to have 
> at least some simple spreadsheet functionality:
> tabular data with row and column referencing
> import/export csv data
> formulae, cell references +-/*=
> simple functions sum() min() max() avg()

For age 6-12 the basics will certainly help. Check out what you can do with
the spreadsheet in the write activity.

Cheers,
Pia

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