Another plotting exercise: MathClock / MathCircle<div><br></div><div>With X, Y coordinates,</div><div>- Draw a circle</div><div>- Draw a circle around the origin</div><div>- Label degrees (360; Babylonian base 12)</div><div>- Label fractional radians</div><div>- Label 12 hours</div><div>- Label the 60 minutes</div><div>- Draw clock hands</div><div><br></div><div>And then do the same with radial coordinates</div><div><br></div><div>... Number representations: change of base; Columns in e.g. Pandas; Trigonometry: Sin, Cos<br><br>On Sunday, June 23, 2019, Wes Turner <<a href="mailto:wes.turner@gmail.com">wes.turner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br>On Sunday, June 23, 2019, C. Cossé <<a href="mailto:ccosse@gmail.com" target="_blank">ccosse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Kirby,</div><div><br></div><div>I think kids should write their own plotting routines to graph their functions starting anywhere 3rd-7th grade. <br></div><div><br></div><div>In one lesson developing a simple solar system in pygame, for example, you can teach everything from the meaning of pi, periodic motion, dynamic graphics, orders of magnitude, scaling, OOP, ... all kinds of stuff.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What a fun problem! Does PyGame have 2D physics? Kerbal Space Program looks fun, too</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>AND basically lay the ground-work for developing their own 2D plotting software.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What grade levels or math and physics knowledge would you think appropriate for these tasks?</div><div><br></div><div>- Specify the coordinates of the vertices of a cube</div><div>- Draw the cube in 3D (2D from a perspective)</div><div>- Rotate the cube or move the 'camera/observer's (around a point other than the origin) in 3D space and draw each frame at time t</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>-Charlie<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:09 AM kirby urner <<a href="mailto:kirby.urner@gmail.com" target="_blank">kirby.urner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Somewhere every summer, I tend to call into question the wisdom of buying the kids another scientific calculator at the drug store (we call them that here, pharmacies have calculators hanging on racks at the checkout, to cash in on gullibility and impulse buys).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">This year:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/4dsolutions/School_of_Tomorrow/blob/master/Sandbox_Example.ipynb" target="_blank">https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/g<wbr>ithub/4dsolutions/School_of_To<wbr>morrow/blob/master/Sandbox_Exa<wbr>mple.ipynb</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">That's of course the read-only version (vs. <a href="http://mybinder.org" target="_blank">mybinder.org</a>) with the benefit of a free video at the bottom, not visible on Github, where I give my viewers the elevator speech i.e. pitch Jupyter Notebooks using Python as superior to slaving away with a graphing calculator.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Not that anyone is still using graphing calculators right? Sorry if I'm beating a dead horse (idiom).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Kirby</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div>
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