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An old friend of mine, Dr. Barry Newell<\/a>, is an astrophysicist who was was the Administrator (in the NASA sense) of Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories of the Australian National University. He now works on the dynamics of social-ecological systems. In his spare time (back in 1988), he wrote two classic books on Logo programming and mathematics, Turtle Confusion<\/em> and the accompanying book for educators, Turtles Speak Mathematics. <\/em>Turtle Confusion features 40 challenging turtle geometry puzzles in a mystery format and Turtles Speak Mathematics<\/em> helps educators understand the mathematics their students are learning.<\/p>\n

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I was reminded of the books when Sugar Labs, the folks behind the operating system for the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop, featured the challenges as an activity<\/a> to accompany TurtleArt<\/a> software on the XO.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot of the XO Turtle Confusion Activity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The books’ author, Dr. Barry Newell,<\/a> gave me permission to share digital copies of the book for personal, educational and non-commercial use. Click here<\/a><\/strong> to go to the download page.<\/p>\n

These books are best used with versions of Logo such as Lynx <\/a>(newest option), MicroWorlds EX<\/a> or Berkeley Logo<\/a>. Some of the puzzles are very difficult or impossible to solve in Scratch<\/a>, but it’s worth trying. SNAP!<\/a> is another potential option. Turtle Art<\/a> is strong contender.<\/p>\n

Although, mathematical programming is often easiest and best achieved through the use of textual language (IMHO). A bit of dialect translation might be necessary. For example, CS is often CG (in MicroWorlds EX<\/a>\u00a0or Lynx<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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