Hilaire,
Thank you for sharing these and rendering them within Etoys. Some thoughts.
1. Instead of the die category attribute "dotColor" what about "dotPlayer" 1. Then kids could make Table with whatever graphic interests them 2. When I resize a "Dot in Table" the box around the dots, changes in size, but the dots do not move and if you make the box smaller than the area filled by the dots, some of the dots appear outside the box. 1. If you change the scale of "Dot in Table" (Ex: to 2.0) it does not behave as described above, but changes size 3. Change the name to "Dot Table" no need for "in" (actually would want to think about this some more as to what would be an appropriate name in English 4. Not sure how you designed this, but what about using a Holder as the "container" for the dots (or as I would prefer players. This provides a lot more flexibility and IMO better metaphors/ideas to play with. As has been mentioned by Subbu and others, the Holder is great for exploring factoring et al. 5. I would also add a 2nd player variable so that this one object could be used to show fractions/ratios 1. I would attach a project showing what I am thinking about. Unfortunately I can't post this to Squeakland at this time (or anything else, but Tim emailed me and is working on it so hopefully that issue will be resolved soon) and the mailing list will not allow me to attach the file.
If you made the above changes you could really combine the two artifacts into one.
Many thanks to Randy for posting a project (Die Roll)http://www.squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=10016 on Squeakland so that those of us who are not familiar with the Smalltalk tools and how to load the latest versions can play with these things.
Stephen
Steve,
Thanks for the suggestion.
Steve Thomas a écrit :
Hilaire,
Thank you for sharing these and rendering them within Etoys. Some thoughts.
- Instead of the die category attribute "dotColor" what about "dotPlayer"
- Then kids could make Table with whatever graphic interests them
Okay, I will give a look to that.
- When I resize a "Dot in Table" the box around the dots, changes in size, but the dots do not move and if you make the box smaller than the area filled by the dots, some of the dots appear outside the box.
- If you change the scale of "Dot in Table" (Ex: to 2.0) it does not behave as described above, but changes size
Right, I will lock the size.
- Change the name to "Dot Table" no need for "in" (actually would want to think about this some more as to what would be an appropriate name in English
ok
- Not sure how you designed this, but what about using a Holder as the "container" for the dots (or as I would prefer players. This provides a lot more flexibility and IMO better metaphors/ideas to play with. As has been mentioned by Subbu and others, the Holder is great for exploring factoring et al.
No I will not use it as an holder, it wat not exactly the idea. In that case just better to use the holder. Also I have another artifact in the pipe with a grid and a basket of token. So may be this is what you are looking for.
- I would also add a 2nd player variable so that this one object could be used to show fractions/ratios
- I would attach a project showing what I am thinking about.
Okay I will look. We should definitely write this idea in the wiki.
If you made the above changes you could really combine the two artifacts into one.
Let's see.
Many thanks to Randy for posting a project (Die Roll) http://www.squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=10016 on Squeakland so that those of us who are not familiar with the Smalltalk tools and how to load the latest versions can play with these things.
Great idea Randon.
Hilaire
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