Activity "learn digits" is now ready :)

It only has arab digits, I'm not sure that adding other symbols to count like dots is really useful, as users already have to count circles to fill, it seems more useful to directly learn the digit symbols and the corresponding voices.

As for the operations (additions and subtractions), that for sure is a good idea, I'll make separate activities based on this one for those (probably called "learn additions" and "learn subtractions").

Would there be a duplication with magic-hat activities? We already "color" stars to make additions and subtractions, maybe there is a redundancy here?

I remember @echarruau said that magic-hat is a bit "complicated" for young children (I guess it was about the "workflow" of having to click on the hat...).

Also, magic hat shows operations with stars to count, here we would show it with digits. And it would be limited to "small" operations, with maximum result of 9 (both to keep it as a simple introduction to those operations, and to keep it usable on small touchscreens, which is a bit problematic right now in magic hat especially with the big number of stars at higher levels)

Hi,
Magic hat is difficult for preschool children, even for me sometimes ;) Two many steps.
So yes it would be a good game for preschool and 6 years old if we could add addition and subtraction (until +4/-4 is really enough).

Having other numbers than arabic numbers is a good idea. I do it in class.
I have many representations of the same number (fingers, dots, constellations) and I ask pupils to bring back as many plates/forks/objects as the quantity that is shown
They have to count, then remember then bring back the objects.
This is really interesting.

Emmanuel

OK, then I can add an option to have different representations for the numbers. I think stars (constellations) and hands should be enough (I think adding both dots and stars would be a bit redundant).
But only for the learn_digits activity, as the code/layout would not be really adapted to add those also for addition/subtraction...

Also thanks for the pointer for addition/subtraction (until +4/-4), I'll do something along those lines.

It is interesting to have "random" placed elements

This trains the faculty to memorise that an element has already been counted (an element can not be counted twice), and it is more difficult if you have ramdomised element placed.

Indeed, that's why I'll have to make images with sort of randomly placed stars (constellations) for each digit. Because making randomly placed items programatically is much harder to make sure that items don't overlap/are not too hard to count (and would also be much heavier to compute everytime).

Actually, after thinking about it, maybe putting images of dots instead of stars is better, as it may be simpler to read for any young kid than stars, so I think I'll go with dots instead of stars.

The option for digits representation is now ready (with choice between Arabic numerals, Dots and Fingers).