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 >
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