[math4] New Activity

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Mark DeMayo wrote:

> I am in the olpc class at RIT and I was looking for some feedback on an 
> idea that I had for an activity. Here is a link to my wiki which 
> includes an example of the activity. Any feedback will be appreciated. 
> Thank you.
> 
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mdemayo

Mark, this looks like a brilliant little activity.  Simple, fun gameplay, 
extensible.  Really great.

Some thoughts:

1. I'd love to see this as primarily a PyGame activity, with just enough 
"Sugar" to run it on Sugar easily, but also easily available as a Windows 
or Mac activity.  If done well, this is precisely the sort of activity 
that could cross over.  (Which is, in fact, how I'd like to see most Sugar 
games built.)

2. Always think a little bit (but not too much) about assessment.  The 
student knows they're getting better because they are "leveling up".  The 
teacher knows the kid is getting better because... how?  Game data is 
pushed up to a server... somehow?  Dunno if anyone is paying attention to 
this question, but it would be great if there were a simple way to allow 
teachers to aggregate "high score" data, which really doubles as 
assessment data in cases like this.

A great start.  I look forward to seeing what it becomes.

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