Digital Schoolhouse Tutorial Video: Making a Shape Calculator with Variables

Contributed by ScratchEd Team, September 25, 2012

This video tutorial describes how to write a Scratch program to generate the angles and sides of a shape.

Original Author: Mark Dorling
Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School
Content Types: Audio and Video, Activity, Lesson Plan, Tutorial, Website
Curricular Areas: Mathematics
Keywords: geometry, algebra, video tutorial, tutorial, calculator, shape, angles

The Digital Schoolhouse is a primary to secondary school transition project established at Langley Grammar School in Slough, Berkshire. The project provides a colleciton of online resources and lesson plans for ICT and Computing educators working with primary and secondary school pupils (ages 8-14) in the UK. Now anyone can access the Scratch tutorial videos and worksheets for free.

Making a Shape Calculator
By popular demand following the number calculator project, this shape calculator video tutorial shows you how to create a Scratch project that will generate the angles and sides of a shape using variables.

Special thanks to Mark Dorling for sharing these free resources.

Links:

Digital Schoolhouse website

Video Tutorial: Making a shape calculator

Digital Schoolhouse Tutorial Video: Making a Shape Calculator with Variables

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