polygon – TeacherCalder http://teachercalder.ca Teacher by trade. Learner by nature. Thu, 21 Apr 2016 02:47:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 Programming Ollie to make regular polygons in MFM1P http://teachercalder.ca/2015/06/programming-ollie-to-make-regular-polygons/ http://teachercalder.ca/2015/06/programming-ollie-to-make-regular-polygons/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2015 22:24:22 +0000 http://teachercalder.ca/?p=823 Today a few students in Grade 9 Applied mathematics used the Tickle app to create a program that asks the user “Please enter the number of sides” and then it uses the formula for sum of interior angles to calculate the exterior angles of the polygon. Ollie then dutifully travels to create the requested regular polygon.

 

Their code for Ollie in Tickle App:

 

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