Our next task was to research a little further into the history, members, and goals of our project, Math4 Project. This seemed easy initially because I saw so much information in their Wiki. However, after having to read all of the information, I found my self lost in numerous opened tabs and windows. I was following link after link but somehow just circling myself around to the same information. I think I see the hierarchy now in that it all began with OLPC which used the Sugar OS. Sugar branched off into Sugar Labs, a new project to help develop the Sugar OS. From Sugar Labs came the Math4 Project.
The goal of Math4 is to provide activities that correspond to the learning objectives of a 4th grader's mathematics curriculum. The creators of Math4 have chosen the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for Mathematics as their guideline for activities. The idea is to have these open-source activities run on the XO laptops to help underprivileged children learn math. The creators also stated that they hope to have a least 4 activities per objective because research shows that different children learn in different ways and having a variety of activities may provide a wider range of accomplishing this.
Currently there are two organizers for Math4, Greg DeKoenigsber and Karlie Robinson. DeKoenigsber is the programmer who has experience working with the Fedora project but is currently working with Sugar Labs. Robinson is a recruiter and liaison for Math4 since she is not a programmer.
As far as contributions to Math4, there are some activities that are currently in development that we could try to join or we could always help resolve bugs found in their Bug Tracker.
More details to come..
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