[Edu-sig] seasonal challenge to calculator dominance in high schools

[Wes Turner]

Another plotting exercise: MathClock / MathCircle

With X, Y coordinates,
- Draw a circle
- Draw a circle around the origin
- Label degrees (360; Babylonian base 12)
- Label fractional radians
- Label 12 hours
- Label the 60 minutes
- Draw clock hands

And then do the same with radial coordinates

... Number representations: change of base; Columns in e.g.
Pandas; Trigonometry: Sin, Cos

On Sunday, June 23, 2019, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sunday, June 23, 2019, C. Cossé <ccosse at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Kirby,
>>
>> I think kids should write their own plotting routines to graph their
>> functions starting anywhere 3rd-7th grade.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> What a fun problem! Does PyGame have 2D physics? Kerbal Space Program
> looks fun, too
>
>
>> AND basically lay the ground-work for developing their own 2D plotting
>> software.
>>
>
> What grade levels or math and physics knowledge would you think
> appropriate for these tasks?
>
> - Specify the coordinates of the vertices of a cube
> - Draw the cube in 3D (2D from a perspective)
> - 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
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>>
>> -Charlie
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:09 AM kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>> This year:
>>> https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/4dsolutions/School_of_To
>>> morrow/blob/master/Sandbox_Example.ipynb
>>>
>>> That's of course the read-only version (vs. mybinder.org) 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.
>>>
>>> Not that anyone is still using graphing calculators right?  Sorry if I'm
>>> beating a dead horse (idiom).
>>>
>>> Kirby
>>>
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>>
>> --
>>
>> ccosse.github.io
>>
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