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 logo, nor is it in scratch) 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. > > 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 <http://scratch.mit.edu/> or some other >> version of logo, such as Turtle >> Art<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art>. >> It's hard to see the thumbnail but click on it for a larger view. >> >> This is one of the best sheets ever for teaching maths (designed by Barry >> Newell): >> >> - the logo turtle or scratch cat acts as a transitional object between >> the concrete maths shape and the abstraction of the script that makes the >> shape >> - the sheet includes both simple and complex shapes, increasing in >> order of complexity, there is a challenge there for everyone >> - many of the more complex shapes are made up of combinations of the >> simpler shapes >> >> Source: Barry Newell's Turtle Confusion (1988) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > >
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