Math+Scratch video-series that explores coding with Scratch to give a "hands-on feeling of math in action."
This latest phase of Citizen Maths Scratch Videos includes content for Proportion, Representation, and Uncertainty:
https://www.citizenmaths.com/how-to-use-scratch-in-citizen-maths/
In addition to the videos, the site includes a table (excerpted below) describing which skills are explored in each video.
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1: Introducing the Scratch website
How to:
- access the website
- browse Scratch ‘projects’ (the name for the programs made by coding in Scratch)
- access online help
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2: A maze project
How to:
- How to look inside a project
- Understanding the different elements of a Scratch project
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3: A spiral project
How to:
- create a new project
- change the sprite
- use these blocks: clear, go to, pendown, penup, move, turn, point in direction
- connect blocks to make a script
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4: A regular pentagon project
How to:
- use the sprite library
- move the sprite with the mouse
- use these blocks: move, pendown, turn, repeat, clear
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5: Small and large regular pentagons
How to:
- make a variable
- display the variable on the screen
- set a value for a variable
- use a variable in a script
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6: Regular polygons
How to:
- make and use a second variable
- calculate with a variable using the ‘divide’ block
- use the point in direction block
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Thanks to Seb Schmoller, of Citizen Maths, for sharing this resource.