<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>And the arc primitive shouldn't be there ....<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Alan<br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Rita Freudenberg <rita@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> IAEP SugarLabs <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, June 8, 2011 9:27:49 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges<br></font><br> Does anyone know about the license of the "turtle confusion" book? Would it be ok to translate it?<div><br></div><div>Greetings,</div><div>Rita<br><div><br><div><div>On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Bill Kerr wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">introduced turtle art and barry newell's 40 shapes to my students today<div><br></div><div>about half way through the lesson someone asked, "how do you do the circle?"</div><div><br></div><div>before I could say anything another student replied, "that's easy - just use arc"</div> <div><br></div><div>you've gotta laugh</div><div>(an arc primitive wasn't there for the original logo, nor is it in scratch)</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Maria Droujkova <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:droujkova@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:droujkova@gmail.com">droujkova@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command.<br><br clear="all">Cheers,<br>Maria Droujkova<br><span> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.naturalmath.com/">http://www.naturalmath.com/</a></span><br><br>Make math your own, to make your own math.<br> <br> <br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Bill Kerr <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:billkerr@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:billkerr@gmail.com">billkerr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5"> Image attached <div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:20px;">Forty shapes to make in <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://scratch.mit.edu/" style="color:rgb(153, 153, 153);text-decoration:none;">Scratch</a> or some other version of logo, such as <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art" style="color:rgb(153, 153, 153);text-decoration:none;">Turtle Art</a>. It's hard to see the thumbnail but click on it for a larger view.<br> <br>This is one of the best sheets ever for teaching maths (designed by Barry Newell):<br><ul><li>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</li> <li>the sheet includes both simple and complex shapes, increasing in order of complexity, there is a challenge there for everyone</li><li>many of the more complex shapes are made up of combinations of the simpler shapes</li> </ul><div><span style="font-weight:bold;">Source</span>: Barry Newell's <span style="font-style:italic;">Turtle Confusion</span> (1988)</div></span></div> <br></div></div><div class="im">_______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br><span> <a target="_blank" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div><br> </blockquote></div><br> </div> _______________________________________________<br>IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div> </div></body></html>