Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2011-06-09 Thread mokurai
> 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,

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2011-06-08 Thread Walter Bender
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 > > Gr

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2011-06-08 Thread Alan Kay
And the arc primitive shouldn't be there Cheers, Alan From: Rita Freudenberg To: IAEP SugarLabs 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&qu

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2011-06-08 Thread Rita Freudenberg
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 d

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-09 Thread Bill Kerr
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

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-05 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:23 AM, K. K. Subramaniam wrote: > On Friday 04 Sep 2009 10:12:36 pm Maria Droujkova wrote: > > Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command. > Maria, > > Could you be more specific please? hardest to understand through Scratch or > hardest to cre

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-05 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Friday 04 Sep 2009 10:12:36 pm Maria Droujkova wrote: > Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command. Maria, Could you be more specific please? hardest to understand through Scratch or hardest to create after having understood? Subbu _

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-04 Thread Edward Cherlin
> ________ > From: Bill Kerr > To: Maria Droujkova > Cc: iaep > Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 4:27:26 PM > Subject: Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges > > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Maria Droujkova wrote: >> >> Circle is one

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-04 Thread Alan Kay
about Logo, let's worry about the school systems ... Cheers, Alan From: Bill Kerr To: Maria Droujkova Cc: iaep Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 4:27:26 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Maria Droujkova wr

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-04 Thread Bill Kerr
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Maria Droujkova wrote: > Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command. > move a little turn a little lots of times repeat 360 [move 1 turn 1] that is a classic discussion arising from Papert does this prepare students for calculus? an h

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-04 Thread Costello, Rob R
rob From: iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org on behalf of Maria Droujkova Sent: Sat 9/5/2009 2:42 AM To: Bill Kerr Cc: iaep Subject: Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command. Cheers, Maria Drou

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-04 Thread Maria Droujkova
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 wrote: > Image attached > Forty shapes to make in Scratch

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-04 Thread Bill Kerr
ill Kerr > Sent: Mon 8/31/2009 9:19 PM > To: iaep > Subject: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges > > 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/

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-09-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
I recommend Tilings and Patterns by Branko Grunbaum and G.C. Shephard as a source for many, many more such challenges. On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Bill Kerr 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 thum

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

2009-08-31 Thread Costello, Rob R
Bill Kerr Sent: Mon 8/31/2009 9:19 PM To: iaep Subject: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges 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 t