I think dragging them through a non-trivial project start-to-finish in one intro lesson can be effective at reaching students because it shows them everything (which is not so much) that lies between them and a completed application/product, thereby giving them hope and not scaring them that it's too much of a mountain ahead ...
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 12:04 PM Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Another plotting exercise: MathClock / MathCircle > > With X, Y coordinates, > - Draw a circle > - Draw a circle around the origin > - Label degrees (360; Babylonian base 12) > - Label fractional radians > - Label 12 hours > - Label the 60 minutes > - Draw clock hands > > And then do the same with radial coordinates > > ... Number representations: change of base; Columns in e.g. > Pandas; Trigonometry: Sin, Cos > > On Sunday, June 23, 2019, Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sunday, June 23, 2019, C. Cossé <cco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Kirby, >>> >>> I think kids should write their own plotting routines to graph their >>> functions starting anywhere 3rd-7th grade. >>> >>> In one lesson developing a simple solar system in pygame, for example, >>> you can teach everything from the meaning of pi, periodic motion, dynamic >>> graphics, orders of magnitude, scaling, OOP, ... all kinds of stuff. >>> >> >> What a fun problem! Does PyGame have 2D physics? Kerbal Space Program >> looks fun, too >> >> >>> AND basically lay the ground-work for developing their own 2D plotting >>> software. >>> >> >> What grade levels or math and physics knowledge would you think >> appropriate for these tasks? >> >> - Specify the coordinates of the vertices of a cube >> - Draw the cube in 3D (2D from a perspective) >> - Rotate the cube or move the 'camera/observer's (around a point other >> than the origin) in 3D space and draw each frame at time t >> >> >>> >>> -Charlie >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:09 AM kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Somewhere every summer, I tend to call into question the wisdom of >>>> buying the kids another scientific calculator at the drug store (we call >>>> them that here, pharmacies have calculators hanging on racks at the >>>> checkout, to cash in on gullibility and impulse buys). >>>> >>>> This year: >>>> >>>> https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/4dsolutions/School_of_Tomorrow/blob/master/Sandbox_Example.ipynb >>>> >>>> That's of course the read-only version (vs. mybinder.org) with the >>>> benefit of a free video at the bottom, not visible on Github, where I give >>>> my viewers the elevator speech i.e. pitch Jupyter Notebooks using Python as >>>> superior to slaving away with a graphing calculator. >>>> >>>> Not that anyone is still using graphing calculators right? Sorry if >>>> I'm beating a dead horse (idiom). >>>> >>>> Kirby >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Edu-sig mailing list >>>> Edu-sig@python.org >>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ccosse.github.io >>> >> -- ccosse.github.io
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