Free software programs for educational activities – Hypertext

The developers have also been interested in how to facilitate teaching, and here is a compilation of free educational software more useful.

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The world of software is as wide as the number of our needs this technology can cover; also therefore free software. Provide education to citizenship , the youngest of all, is not only a necessity but also a moral and pragmatic obligation, and today we have a number of freeware software they can help in this task. Let’s see what they are.

Free Software to kindergarten

Because of the simplicity that require programs to teach students in kindergarten and early elementary years, what we find are sets of activities for all applicable materials: Childsplay , with 14 games and exercises for children between 2 and 7 years; GCompris , for children between 2 and 10 years (the version for GNU / Linux is more complete than Windows); Omnitux , 11 categories of activities; and Sebran , with 12 sets of arithmetic, reading and memory for children between 4 and 9 years.

Free software for learning Spanish language

This stuff is a good example of an educational field that seems to have not cared enough free software developers , as in world history and the arts, perhaps because the way they are It teaches is mostly traditional, with pen and paper, and I consider it positive that so: learn to write by hand is a competition not to be missed , there are already plenty of time to be give you hit the laptop keyboard and touchscreen mobile devices.

KHangMan

However, yes some programs can be useful in this field, such as Katamotz , which helps enhance the reading process increasing the lightness of it, with texts by paragraphs that appear and disappear at a controlled rate and the ability to highlight coloring them letters or words; Myth , developed by the University of Malaga to teach spelling with 4 games different focus on the rules that have to learn; KHangMan , the legendary game of hangman to learn vocabulary; Kataluga , for children with dyslexia and other problems to acquire language skills; and grammar and syntax available on the website of CATEDU , the Aragonese Center for Educational Technologies.

Free software for learning Math

• CubeTest is used for primary school children to practice space vision answering to ten multiple choice questions in a bucket and four possible different views of the same, of which only one is correct is shown.

• Tux of Math Command , a game in which exercise the four basic math , ie, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The exercises rush down screen and the player has to destroy them before they reach the ground putting the result.

• TuxMathScrabble , another game, but in this case, the Scrabble mathematical , with numbers instead of letters, and the same four fundamental operations.

• Kitsune resolve arithmetic problems like the old game show Letters & Figures , finding a specific number from other and again, using only elementary arithmetical operations. No installation required.

• Pyromaths generating mathematical exercises for students in sixth grade, first, second and third ESO. It requires installation of a distribution of LaTeX, because the exercises are generated in this format, as MiKTeX to produce the PDF. Also, you need

  Asymptote installed.

• WxGéométrie is a graphing calculator to students of ESO and high school, which has four distinct modules: dynamic geometry, statistics, curve tracer and of course scientific computing

Tux Math Command

• GeoGebra , and algebraic geometry processor , that is, software that brings interactive geometry, algebra and calculus; is dynamic geometry software charting buildings of all types and its graphical representation, algebraic treatment and calculation of real functions of real variable, their integrals, derivatives and others.

• GNU Octave is the free alternative to Matlab. Make all kinds of numerical calculations , a syntax compatible with Matlab, and can produce graphs using gnuplot. QtOctave is your recommended graphical interface.

• Maxima is a program symbolic computation that descends from DOE proverbial Macsyma. Includes wxMaxima.

• JAME is used to fractals represent , applying filters and generating images of high resolution and animations. Java is needed.

• Axiom it is a great system to computer algebra , a type hierarchy mathematically correct, a very complete documentation and philosophy of Literate Programming. However, keep in mind that this project has been Two forks or forks. OpenAxiom and Fricas

• Pari / Gp is another system for computer algebra, but designed for number theory ; Cactus is used for the numerical solution of equations partial derivatives ; Felt is used to finite element in engineering applications; and Metamatemath to the Formal theorem proving , verifiable by computer.

Free software for learning natural sciences and geography

• physics ForcePAD program to visualize the behavior of structures subjected to loads and boundary conditions ; JMCAD , to model and simulate complex dynamic systems , whether linear, nonlinear, continuous time, discrete and hybrid or variables (requires Java); and PhET , also with simulations , but animated and interactive.

• chemical Jmol viewer chemical structures in three dimensions (no installation required but Java); BKChem draws chemicals and allows export in different formats (requires .NET Framework); Open Babel chemical data converter ; and Avogadro , Advanced molecules editor to computer chemistry, molecule modeling, bioinformatics, materials science and related fields.

Stellarium

• astronomy Celestia , star simulator with which we can travel the cosmos and watch planets, satellites, stars and other astronomical bodies, or see the constellations and experience the way in which the universe revolves around; Stellarium up photorealistic views of the night sky moving , which you can zoom in on the Solar System and has more than 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos catalog, 88 constellations and 70 nebulae; Virtual Moon , a mole atlas to observe the lunar surface to complete, broaden geographical features and consult all the details about them.

• geography Marble , atlas and globe virtual with different thematic maps and projections; World Wind , developed by NASA herself, with which you can explore the earth’s surface and mole with satellite imagery and topographic, scalable maps (requires .NET Framework); and World Geography Puzzle Games program in English on the continents and oceans in the world with readings and games in four levels.

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