[IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

[mokurai at earthtreasury.org]

On Wed, June 8, 2011 12:22 pm, Alan Kay wrote:
> And the arc primitive shouldn't be there ....

You have said too much or too little, Alan. Why not?

> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Rita Freudenberg <rita at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
> To: IAEP SugarLabs <iaep at 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
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>
>
> 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 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)
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