A Compendium of Elementary Web Sketchpad Activities
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Tag Archives: Fractals and Tessellations
Creating Mosaics Inspired by a Pattern from Sultan Ahmed Mosque
Mirek Majewski was born in Poland and studied mathematics at the Nicholas Copernicus University in Poland with an M.S. and Ph.D. in non-classical geometries. He is a professor of mathematics and computer science at several universities – PNG University of Technology, Inter-University of Macau (now Saint Joseph University), Zayed University in United Arab Emirates, and New York … Continue Reading ››
Picturing Functions and Functions of Pictures
I’m excited to be making my first presentation of the 2013-14 school year next week in Baltimore. Daniel Scher and I are presenting Picturing Functions and Functions of Pictures. We'll be discussing the connections between pictures and functions.
These connections are even richer than I realized when I first began to work with pictures in Sketchpad. In the … Continue Reading ››
The Mathematics of Logos
As you may know, we created a new logo for Key using a circle and rotational animation 
to create a visual representation of pi. Karen Coe describes this in her post Branding Isn't About Math. Are You Sure About That? (You can also … Continue Reading ››
Writing Mathematics with Sketchpad
In a recent blog post, Karen Coe referred to Conrad Wolfram’s opinion that programming is to mathematics what composition is to English. I’ve taught programming and written a lot of Sketchpad code, and I appreciate Wolfram’s analogy. In English class, students read books, poems, short stories, essays, and articles—but to gain a deep appreciation for … Continue Reading ››