Recent changes to feature-requests

Need an ANSWER_COPIES limiter

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:13:20 -0000

I see the QUESTION_COPIES limiter, but it would be nice to have something that limits the number of answers as well, or at least limit the number of answers that are currently in play.
It kind of feels like cheating when you answer one or more other questions unintentionally when you were actually answering a different one.
This is very noticeable in the training stages where the pool of answers is low enough to cause frequent, simultaneous duplicates.

Logarithms and Exponentiation

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:40:56 -0000

Honestly, I know that tuxmath was designed to be for children under 4~10 years old, but in the reality, it's for "children" under 4~40 years old, so I suggest that the developers put exponentiation, Logarithms and Roots. ;)

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mode for multiplayer competition over network

Andrew Ziem — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:06:51 -0000

It would be nice to see a multiplayer feature that
works over the local network. (We have a learning
center with some 18 stations.) Competition can be fun
and motivating, but I understand this feature may be a
difficult to develop.

I got the idea after looking at two programs.
Typespeed [1] is a terminal-based typing program with a
network mode, and Avahi [2] is "a system which
facilitates service discovery on a local network." The
Avahi part is (and should be) optional: it just makes
finding local peers easy.

[1] http://tobias.eyedacor.org/typespeed/
[2] http://avahi.org/

Change the number levels

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:04:53 -0000

This is a great program, but the difficulty levels
don't make a lot of sense pedagogically. The ranges
for the numbers go 1-5 and then 6-12 and then 13-20.
If you were to change it to 1-5, 6-10, 11-12, and 13-20
it would be infinitely more useful.

The reason is that this would work well with most of
the math facts standards in California and most other
states.

For instance, the multiplation table standard is part
of California Mathematics Content Standard 3.2 (Grade
3, 2nd standard)

"Students calculate and solve problems involving
addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division:

2.2 Memorize to automaticity the multiplication table
for numbers between 1 and 10."

Look at the math facts from CMCS 1.2:

"Students demonstrate the meaning of addition and
subtraction and use these operations to solve problems:

2.1 Know the addition facts (sums to 20) and the
corresponding subtraction facts and commit them to memory."

The standards aren't arbitrary. For instance, children
aren't expected to memorize 11X12 because they learn an
algorythm later that year (3rd grade) that shows them
how to multiply any two-digit number by another.

If you changed it to the levels I describe, or even
better, allow me to include any numbers that I like
somehow, this program would be completely awesome. As
it is, it's just awesome.

My kids really love it, but it can be a little
frustrating to have your building destroyed for a math
fact that's not in your flashcard pile.

Function selection

Kristinn Eysteinsson — Sat, 02 Feb 2002 19:03:08 -0000

It would be helpfull if it were possible to select
which functions would be used. According to the childs
ability you would be able to chose between addition,
subtraction, addition and subtraction, multiplication,
division, multiplication and division or all 4.

Difficulty levels

Kristinn Eysteinsson — Sat, 02 Feb 2002 18:58:43 -0000

It would be helpfull if it were possible to select a
difficulty level (speed/max number) so it could be set
to work slower and with lower numbers for younger kids
and faster with higher numbers for older kids.

Builds for multiple platforms

William Kendrick — Sat, 01 Sep 2001 07:31:42 -0000

TuxMath should be made available for Win32, Linux and
MacOS, at the very least. BeOS, MacOSX, BSDs and other
Unixes would be agreeable, as well.

Translations

William Kendrick — Sat, 01 Sep 2001 07:29:49 -0000

Translations of the game into numerous languages would
be beneficial.

Documentation, graphics files, and potentially some
sound files would need to be translated. These sets of
files could be released as drop-in replacements for the
'native' version of the game (US/english).

Speech

William Kendrick — Sat, 01 Sep 2001 07:18:25 -0000

For sight-impaired players, there should be an option
to have the game speak various aspects of the
interface. For example, as a new comet appears, say
its equation aloud. When the player types numbers, say
each number aloud. (In the latter, we may want to make
this optional, since some players will be more
comfortable with keyboards, and won't need typing
feedback. Also, the typed-digit sounds should sound
different than other gameplay voices.)