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The KDE Edutainment Project develops educational software for the K Desktop Environment (KDE). This software is bundled in the kdeedu package.

List of software

Languages

  • Kanagram - an anagram game.
  • KHangMan - Classical hangman game.
  • Kiten - Japanese reference/learning tool.
  • KLatin - a Latin learning tool
  • KLettres - Helps to learn the alphabet and then to read some syllables in different languages.
  • KVerbos - Application specially designed to study Spanish verb forms.
  • KVocTrain - Vocabulary trainer using a "flash card" approach.

Mathematics

  • KBruch - Program for generating tasks with vulgar fractions.
  • Kig - Program for exploring geometric constructions.
  • KmPlot - Mathematical function plotter.
  • KPercentage - Small math application that will help pupils to improve their skills in calculating percentages.

Miscellaneous

Science

Teaching Tools

  • KEduca - Educational project to enable the creation and revision of form-based tests and exams.

Software in Development

External links

Educational software is computer software whose primary purpose is teaching or self-learning.

History

Early History, 1940s - 1970s

The use of computer hardware and software in education and training dates to the early 1940s, when American researchers developed
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Maintainer: The KDE Team

OS: Cross-platform
Available language(s): Multilingual (80 different languages.)
Use: Desktop environment
License: GNU General Public License and others
Website: [1] KDE (
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A software package is a bundle of one or several files that either are necessary for the execution of a computer program, or add features for a program already installed on the computer or network of computers.
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anagram (Greek anagramma 'letters written anew', passive participle of ana- 'again' + gramma 'letter') is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once; e.
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see also Hangmen (film):an American movie issued in 1987 (public domain)
Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two players. One player thinks of a word and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters.
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Kiten is a Japanese Kanji learning tool and reference for KDE. It also works as a Japanese-to-English and English-to-Japanese dictionary. Users of the program can look up Kanji characters by number of strokes, or by radical.
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Latin}}} 
Official status
Official language of: Vatican City
Used for official purposes, but not spoken in everyday speech
Regulated by: Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Roman Catholic Church
Language codes
ISO 639-1: la
ISO 639-2: lat
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ABCs redirects here, for the Alien Big Cats, see British big cats.


An alphabet is a standardized set of letters
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A syllable (Ancient Greek: συλλαβή) is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.
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KVerbos is a software program for computers. It is an educational program that helps people practice Spanish verbs.

Currently KVerbos, a part of the KDE Edutainment Project, will run on Linux computers.

References

  • http://edu.kde.

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Kig is a free and open source interactive geometry software, which is part of the KDE edutainment project. It has some facilities for scripting in Python, as well as the creating macros from existing constructions.
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A plotter is a vector graphics printing device that connects to a computer.

Pen Plotters print their output by moving a pen across the surface of a piece of paper. This means that plotters are restricted to line art, rather than raster graphics as with other printers.
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Wynken, Blynken, and Nod is a popular poem for children written by Denver journalist Eugene Field on March 9, 1889. The original title was Dutch Lullaby.

The poem is a fantasy bed-time story of three fishermen sailing and fishing in the stars.
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Simon says is a game for three or more players (most often children). One of the people is "it" – i.e., Simon. The others must do what Simon tells thith a phrase beginning with "Simon says". If Simon says "Simon says jump.
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Applications (List) Amarok • K3b • Kate • KDevelop • KMail • Konsole • Kopete • Konqueror • KView • Kaffeine • Noatun • digiKam • Akregator • KTorrent • KPDF • KGet
Utilities
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Geography - (from the Greek words Geo (γη) or Gaea (γαία), both meaning "Earth", and graphein (γράφειν) meaning "to describe" or "to write"
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KTouch is a software application written for the KDE desktop environment that drills students in the method of touch typing. It comes with lessons for many different keyboard layouts across many different languages. It even has exercises for learning to use a number pad.
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KTurtle is an educational programming environment. It is released under the GNU General Public License (copyleft free software license) and is part the KDE desktop environment.
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Paradigm: functional, educational
Appeared in: 1967
Designed by: Wally Feurzeig & Seymour Papert
Developer: Wally Feurzeig & Seymour Papert
Typing discipline: dynamic
Major implementations: UCBLogo, many others
Influenced by: Lisp
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Kalzium (German for: Calcium) is a periodic table of the elements for KDE.

It contains information about 103 chemical elements, including mass, charge, picture, discovery information, chemical and energy data, and a model of the atom.
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standard periodic table below.


The periodic table of the chemical elements is a tabular method of displaying the chemical elements. Although precursors to this table exist, its invention is generally credited to Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869.
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KStars is a planetarium program for the KDE desktop for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides an accurate graphical representation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time.
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planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. A dominant feature of most planetariums is the large dome-shaped projection screen onto which scenes of stars,
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KEduca is GPL (version 2), (free software license) educational software included with the KDE desktop environment. It includes a module for constructing and saving new tests, and a module for loading and running the tests.
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A chemical equation is a symbolic representation of a chemical reaction. [1] The coefficients next to the symbols and formulae of entities are the absolute values of the stoichiometric numbers. The first-ever chemical equation was diagrammed by Jean Beguin in 1615.
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In psychology, memory is an organism's ability to store, retain, and subsequently retrieve information. Traditional studies of memory began in the realms of philosophy, including techniques of artificially enhancing the memory.
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Mathematics (colloquially, maths or math) is the body of knowledge centered on such concepts as quantity, structure, space, and change, and also the academic discipline that studies them. Benjamin Peirce called it "the science that draws necessary conclusions".
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FACTOR (the Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Records) is a "private non-profit organization, ... dedicated to providing assistance toward the growth and development of the Canadian independent recording industry" (from their website ).
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Mathematics (colloquially, maths or math) is the body of knowledge centered on such concepts as quantity, structure, space, and change, and also the academic discipline that studies them. Benjamin Peirce called it "the science that draws necessary conclusions".
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Maintainer: The KDE Team

OS: Cross-platform
Available language(s): Multilingual (80 different languages.)
Use: Desktop environment
License: GNU General Public License and others
Website: [1] KDE (
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