Some links between turtle geometry and analytic geometry / International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 1985
Abstract
The computer language Logo facilitates the teaching of analytic geometry and calculus from the notion of
curvature, through its "turtle geometry" facility. We provide 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, we study turtle geometry programs where the curvature of a
line is a trigonometric function of its orientation.
Description
This paper appeared in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 16, 1
(1985), 101-112. The equations were redone to make much more readable in 2007.
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