Sept. 15, 2008
11:19 p.m.
... Presumably we could apply the same approach to teaching elementary-school arithmetic algorithms, maze traversal algorithms, and the like for One Laptop Per Child. I have suggested this to their Education mailing list.
Here's a video of a tool I wrote to help elementary-school kids learn carrying/borrowing in the addition/subtraction of whole numbers. http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=2010000&fromSeriesID=201 To get this tool, and a similar one for adding/subtracting fractions, go to: http://www.geocities.com/jjphoogrp -John Posner