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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 -- OLPC Friends http://olpcfriends.org/ Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ Open Source Industry Australia http://osia.net.au/ Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/ "I dig your vibe." - Rove McManus to Ice T _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
