[math4] FourthGradeMath Digest, Vol 2, Issue 15

[Frederick Grose]

Hi Caroline, Christian, & list:
I'm Frederick Grose (FGrose), a facilitator for the OLPC Rochester, NY
grassroots group [1] and the RIT Honors Seminar, Developing for the OLPC XO,
[2] which has adopted *some portion* of the 4th-Grade Math project. [3]

This mailing list and project has attracted good attention, and so, the
desires for many, yet-to-be-fulfilled needs are converging here.

Some background on its short history is available here. [4]

The RIT Honors Seminar held its introductory session on Friday 13 March
2009, [5] and will be a learning space for a number of goals described by
Professor Stephen Jacobs here. [6, 7] Community involvement is one of those
goals, so we will work to integrate those willing to mentor students in the
seminar.  There is lots of potential for spawning learning collaborations.

Professor Eric Grace is a New York State USA certified K-12 educator, and
will provide direct guidance to the seminar on teaching & learning issues,
but needn't work alone, for certainly, additional educator engagement is a
primary goal of the Sugar Labs Education Team. [8]  One might consider the
4th-Grade Math project a practical, distributed effort at advancing the
overarching educational goals.

Others should add to the list of goals, and we all should consider ways to
effectively collaborate on the needs.

Those who are eager to start coding, or designing, or documenting, or ...
may read the list archive, [9] for ideas, and ping others for specifics, or
just begin, and share their efforts to attract collaborators.

Greg Dekoenigsberg and Karlie Robinson are Fedora Ambassadors and are
founders and leading diplomats for the 4th Grade Math project.  The
Ambassadors are custodians of the
OLPC North American Developers Program for 6 months. [10]  Karlie's presence
in Rochester has been catalytic for the effort.

Thank you for your interest and contributions!  May the collaborations grow
and deepen!

       --Fred


[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester,_NY
[2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/RIT_honors_seminar,_developing_for_the_OLPC_XO
[3] http://sugarlabs.org/go/Math4
[4] http://sugarlabs.org/go/Math4/RIT
[5]
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/RIT_honors_seminar,_developing_for_the_OLPC_XO/13_March_2009
[6]
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/fourthgrademath/2009-March/000023.html
[7]
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/fourthgrademath/2009-March/000058.html
[8] http://sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team
[9] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/fourthgrademath/
[10]
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2009-February/msg00033.html




On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com
> wrote:

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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:06:13 -0600
>> From: Christian Horne <blendmaster1024 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [math4] so... is there coding to do yet, or not??
>> To: fourthgrademathlist <fourthgrademath at lists.sugarlabs.org>
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>> I just sent out an email announcing that I have joined, and asked what
>> coding there is to be done. you gave a few responses, but they all ignored
>> coding. so, I ask again, with more emphasis:
>> what am I supposed to code??
>>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> What is the organization of this team? Is there a leader or leaders?  Is
> there anyone on the team who is looking into the research on pedagogy and
> about what work and what doesn't for Math instruction?  Would you like me to
> see if I could recruit someone for that role?
>
> Cheers,
> Caroline.
>
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