Tag Archives: Web Sketchpad

Advanced Mathematics, Educational Technology, Math Software

Pi Day 2015: Pieces of Pi

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For this year’s Pi Day post, I thought I’d continue our Web Sketchpad (WSP) construction theme. But rather than adapting the visualizations from last year’s Pi Day post to the new construction capabilities, I decided to take a different approach. Some time ago, I built a set of custom tools … Continue Reading ››
Advanced Mathematics, Educational Technology, Real-World Math

WCYDWT: A Ball, a Trash Can, and Web Sketchpad

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Dan Meyer has posted a number of "What Can You Do With This?" activities on his blog. (Activities is probably too prescriptive a word; they're more in the nature of prompts for student thinking, noticing, and wondering.) One of the first was the image below, which he made by superimposing frames from a … Continue Reading ››