GSoC/2021/StatusReports/MariamFahmy

GCompris: Adding New Activities

Project Overview

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite, including a large number of activities for children aged 2 to 10, some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.

Currently GCompris offers more than 150 activities, and more are being developed. GCompris is free software, it means that you can adapt it to your own needs, improve it, and most importantly share it with children everywhere.

My project goals include adding four new activities to GCompris:

• Subtraction decimal number activity.
• Addition decimal number activity.
• Programming maze loops activity.
• Mouse control action activity.

Learn decimal numbers

In this activity, a decimal number is displayed. the bar with the arrow represents a full unit, and each square in it represents one tenth of this unit, the kid has to drag the arrow to select a part of the bar, and drop the selected part into the empty area so that the number of dropped bars corresponds to the displayed decimal number.

For every dropped bar, all bars are organized after 1 second from the drop action such that the kid can see the reorganization of bars, as a result we add a place for a 6th bar to have at most 5 full bars.

The activity provides instruction tutorials on how to play with it, both vertical and horizontal layout are supported.