Education

TuxTyping is an educational typing tutor for kids starring Tux, the Linux penguin. This educational game comes with two different games for practicing your typing, and having a great time doing it.

Tux Paint is an award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

If you ever thought that arithmetic was boring, think again! Tux Math is an arithmetic action game. Type the answer and press the space bar to shoot the meteor before it hits earth!

If you are looking for an even simpler mathematics program, try GCompris. If you are looking for more advanced mathematics programs, try Kig or Maxima.

Stellarium is a planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

The Mnemosyne software resembles a traditional flash-card program to help you memorise question/answer pairs, but with an important twist: it uses a sophisticated algorithm to schedule the best time for a card to come up for review. Difficult cards that you tend to forget quickly will be scheduled more often, while Mnemosyne won't waste your time on things you remember well.

This is a game designed to teach letters to children 2 and up, and is a fun learning game. It helps younger children learn their letters and numbers, while older children will improve their spelling, and vocabulary skills. It also helps them develop important keyboard and mouse skills too.

KTurtle is an educational programming environment for the KDE Desktop. KTurtle aims to make programming as easy and touchable as possible, and therefore can be used to teach kids the basics of math, geometry and... programming.

KTouch is a program for learning touch typing. KTouch offers you an easy way to learn to type quickly and correctly. Every finger has its place on the keyboard with associated keys to press. Starting with only a few keys to remember you will advance through different training levels where additional keys are introduced.

KStars is a Desktop Planetarium. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes upto 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.Features

* Catalogs:
o Default catalog consisting of stars to magnitude 8

Klavaro is just another free touch typing tutor program. Other programs you may want to consider instead of this are Tux Typing.