Some links between turtle geometry and analytic geometry
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Authors
Rowe, Neil C.
Subjects
Education, calculus, analytic g3eometry, turtle geometry, Logo, computer languages, curvature, polygons, conic sections, cycloid, spiral, catenary, active learning, computers in education.
Advisors
Date of Issue
1984-01
Date
1984-01
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
Abstract
The computer language Logo facilitates the teaching of analytic geometry and calculus from the notion of curvature, through its turtle geometry facility. The author provides some theoretical basis for finding turtle geometry equivalents of familiar curves in analytic geometry, and vice versa, by some simple methods apparently previously unnoticed. In particular, he studied turtle geometry programs where the curvature of a line is a trigonometric function of its orientation. (Author)
Type
Technical Report
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Organization
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
NPS52-84-002
Sponsors
Prepared for: Chief of Naval Research
Funding
Format
13 p. ; 28 cm.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.