[IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Rita Freudenberg <
rita at 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 <droujkova at 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 <billkerr at 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)
>>>
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