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 <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 -- 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