Some links between turtle geometry and analytic geometry
By: [by] Neil C. Rowe
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Monterey, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13
Subjects: Calculus; LOGO (Computer program language); Programming languages (Electronic computers)
Description: 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)
Notes: Title from cover.

"Prepared for: Chief of Naval Research"--Cover.

"January 1984"--Cover.

"NPS52-84-002"--Cover.

DTIC Identifiers: Turtle geometry, Parametric equations, PE61152N.

Author(s) key words: Education, calculus, analytic g3eometry, turtle geometry, Logo, computer languages, curvature, polygons, conic sections, cycloid, spiral, catenary, active learning, computers in education.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 12).

"Approved for public release; distribution unlimited"--Cover.

Technical report; 1984.

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