On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Rita Freudenberg < [email protected]> 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, > 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 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 <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]> 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!) >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org
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