I have been attending webinars with Raranga Matihiko on Coding Across the Curriculum.
This week's webinar included a section about Scratch and using it in Mathematics. Scratch was used to draw shapes initially and then to add a repeating pattern to make spirograph type patterns. Mathematics knowledge of 2 D shapes and measurement of corners and angles are all used in this coding exercise.
I worked through drawing shapes such as squares, triangles, rectangles and pentagons. I didn't have much success with the pentagon but I will work on that.
Then I put the code together to create the spirographs in succession. I also worked out how to make the background change colours randomly to make it a bit more interesting. My next job is to see if I can speed up the circle code!
Thanks for your post Cheryl. Our Raranga Matihiko team really appreciate knowing that there webinars are useful. All the best with the pengtagon (I'm still struggling with the triangle!).
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