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 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 or some other version of logo, such as 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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges
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 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 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 or some other version of logo, such as 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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges
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, 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 droujk...@gmail.comwrote: 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 Arthttp://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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Continuing discussion of Khan Academy
As mentioned on the laptop.org blog, there are several people discussing how Khan Academy content and concepts could be integrated into Sugar. I'd encourage teachers to get involved in this discussion: http://blog.laptop.org/2011/06/06/khan-academy-videos-and-olpc/ The National Association of Scholars has just posted a critical article focusing on the site's history videos. Most of the videos cover math and science. http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?Doc_Id=2029 Salman Khan, techies, and entrepreneurs respond to the article and discuss Khan Academy in the comments here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2633341 Regards, Nick Doiron ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] DesignBlocks
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Bryant Patten i...@ncose.org wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Walter Bender wrote: Anyone knows similar projects ? Hi Bryant Has anyone mentioned MiniBloq? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/791396812/minibloq-graphical-programming-environment-for-ard?ref=live - Bryant Thanks for the pointer, I've seen minibloq's site and it's sources are not published yet, it seems that is developed on C/C++, that would make it somewhat difficult to modify for children. besides that is has some nice ideas that we can implement on a future TA-Arduino plugin. * Bryant Patten The National Center for Open Source and Education www.ncose.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Curriculum and learning resources
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 18:31, Kenneth Wyrick k...@caltek.net wrote: great to hear about waveplace activities and plans. i'm in the process of joining the ranks of the olpc movement, here in SoCal Welcome. October 2010 I finally created http://teknowledgy.org which is a box colocated here in LA at http://calpop.com where I'm developing curriculum and learning resources for various floss related projects in a business context of entrepreneurship In my capacities as author and editor at FLOSS Manuals, and Project Manager for Replacing Textbooks at Sugar Labs, I would like to find out more about your curriculum and learning resources, and see whether we can work together. What do you have now, and what do you plan to create? Who are the target users? What licenses do you publish under? -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
