Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2011-06-09 Thread mokurai
@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Wed, June 8, 2011 9:27:49 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges Does anyone know about the license of the turtle confusion book? Would it be ok to translate it? Greetings, Rita On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Bill Kerr wrote: introduced turtle art and barry newell's

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2011-06-08 Thread Rita Freudenberg
Does anyone know about the license of the turtle confusion book? Would it be ok to translate it? Greetings, Rita On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Bill Kerr wrote: introduced turtle art and barry newell's 40 shapes to my students today about half way through the lesson someone asked, how do you

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2011-06-08 Thread Alan Kay
And the arc primitive shouldn't be there Cheers, Alan From: Rita Freudenberg r...@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de To: IAEP SugarLabs iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Wed, June 8, 2011 9:27:49 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges Does anyone know

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2011-06-08 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Rita Freudenberg r...@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de wrote: Does anyone know about the license of the turtle confusion book? Would it be ok to translate it? It is copyright to Barry Newell 1988 so presumably you'll have to ask his permission. -walter Greetings,

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-09 Thread Bill Kerr
introduced turtle art and barry newell's 40 shapes to my students today about half way through the lesson someone asked, how do you do the circle? before I could say anything another student replied, that's easy - just use arc you've gotta laugh (an arc primitive wasn't there for the original

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-05 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Friday 04 Sep 2009 10:12:36 pm Maria Droujkova wrote: Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command. Maria, Could you be more specific please? hardest to understand through Scratch or hardest to create after having understood? Subbu

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-05 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:23 AM, K. K. Subramaniam subb...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 04 Sep 2009 10:12:36 pm Maria Droujkova wrote: Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command. Maria, Could you be more specific please? hardest to understand through Scratch or

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-04 Thread Bill Kerr
/kittyAngles.html students were off trying to build the shapes, or coming up with new ones ...some seem to find their niche with this -Original Message- From: iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org on behalf of Bill Kerr Sent: Mon 8/31/2009 9:19 PM To: iaep Subject: [IAEP] 40 maths

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-04 Thread Maria Droujkova
Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote: Image attached Forty shapes to make in Scratch

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-04 Thread Costello, Rob R
From: iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org on behalf of Maria Droujkova Sent: Sat 9/5/2009 2:42 AM To: Bill Kerr Cc: iaep Subject: Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command. Cheers, Maria Droujkova

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-04 Thread Bill Kerr
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote: Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command. move a little turn a little lots of times repeat 360 [move 1 turn 1] that is a classic discussion arising from Papert does this prepare students

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-04 Thread Alan Kay
the school systems ... Cheers, Alan From: Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com To: Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com Cc: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 4:27:26 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:12

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-04 Thread Edward Cherlin
, 2009 4:27:26 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote: Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command. move a little turn a little lots of times repeat 360 [move 1 turn 1

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
I recommend Tilings and Patterns by Branko Grunbaum and G.C. Shephard as a source for many, many more such challenges. On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote: Image attached Forty shapes to make in Scratch or some other version of logo, such as Turtle Art. It's hard