GCompris is a free and open source, educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.
Here are some key features of "GCompris":
· GCompris is a high quality educational software suite.
· computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, ...
· algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, ...
· science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, electric simulation ...
· geography: place the country on the map
· games: chess, memory, connect 4, oware, sudoku ...
· reading: reading practice
· learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing, cartoon making
Limitations:
· Only some activities are available.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New features:
· Added 2 new activities to learn to give money make in a shop. This is based on the money activity but now the children must give back money to Tux.
· Now the erase activity reads the .jpg file in its data directory instead of being hardcoded. In the erase activity we have a large number of animal backgrounds. Now these are found at run time instead of being hard coded. Also the user can add its own images in the directory /My GCompris/erase. Added more animal images taken from wikipedia.
· New renewable energy activity. Learn about electric dam, wind farm and solar panels works. This is heavily based on the watercycle activity.
· In money activity, we no more auto check the answer, there is now an OK button Created 3 price categories in money activtiy to make the game more realistic. As suggested by Arnaud Champollion, it is just too easy for the children.
· improved the drawnumber activity to have its dataset taken from a file instead of hardcoded. Now we have a text file nam...
