Have a look at the resources I collected on OERs at Sugar Labs, and at our Replacing Textbooks project (link in my signature block below).
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Open_Educational_Resources There are significant numbers of Math OERs in English, for example in the California Free Digital Textbooks Initiative, which has multiple texts in most of the following subjects. http://www.clrn.org/fdti/ Probability and Statistics Calculus Linear Algebra Triginometry Algebra Geometry and in many other subjects besides math. There are many other such projects. I can also point you to Free Software for use with some such books, including specifically math software, and programming languages that can lead elementary school children into elementary math and all the way up from there. This is most of what I work on at Sugar Labs. On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Tomo <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Jim, > > I was a sharing the Bangladesh link with my friends at the Tuvalu Ministry > of Education (Tuvalu is a very small coral atoll in the middle of the > Pacific). They have introduced a new curriculum and want to trial OERs for > the Maths subject instead of printing their own books. > We will develop a project to do that over the next couple of months. > > They were quite surprised at the available resources and asked if there is > something similar to the Maths resources, but for English. There are some in > the Bangladesh list, but only secondary school and contextual for the > country > I had a search around and found lots of resources for English and ESL, but > no Open text books. COL has some Open Course material, but no text books > Does anyone know of any such Open Text books, preferably for developing > countries where English is a a second language? > > Ian > > On Monday, August 5, 2013 10:42:26 AM UTC+12, jim kelly wrote: >> >> The arithmetic thread in the first 4 textbooks is very interesting. >> >> On the copyright issue - not all Open Access (OA) materials are Open >> Educational Resources (OER). I have been trying to locate a spokes person >> for the series. E-mails have been sent. >> >> (I hope that you have had better luck in downloading Class VI materials – >> on my XP and Windows 7 machines the download has taken 30 minutes, the other >> textbooks download within minutes. Not sure what the problem is?) >> >> Thank you >> >> Jim Kelly >> >> >> >> On Friday, August 2, 2013 8:31:44 PM UTC-7, Tomo wrote: >>> >>> Hi Jim, >>> >>> Thanks for the link and the resources look very interesting. >>> >>> I notice that they are copyright to the National Curriculum and Text Book >>> Board, but you say they are free to download. >>> >>> I cant find anything else about copyright on the site. >>> >>> Ian >>> >>> On Saturday, August 3, 2013 3:49:42 AM UTC+12, jim kelly wrote: >>>> >>>> During the Tuesday (6 August 2013) discussion on “Drivers of fundamental >>>> change in Education “ it might be interesting to examine the implications >>>> of >>>> Bangladesh’s National Curriculum & Textbook Board, which recently released >>>> its Textbooks for the Academic Year 2013. The elementary and secondary >>>> school mathematics textbook series (level 1 to level 10) are both in Bangla >>>> and English language versions and are Free to download. >>>> (http://www.nctb.gov.bd/downloadpage22.php ) >>>> >>>> Bangladesh is much to be respected for its Open Access (OA) approach to >>>> help improve mathematical learning. I hope we all get in the “front seat” >>>> with Bangladesh. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Jim Kelly >>>> >>>> www.k-12math.info > > -- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "WikiEducator" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
