[MWForum]HELP

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 Hi Wendy and whomever else is reading this !
 Some information about me/my
 school:
 I teach in the primary[elementary] section of a large mult...
 
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> independent school in Victoria, Australia. The school 'covers' the years
> pre-Prep  to Yr 12 [VCE]. We even have a campus in Nanjing, China which
our
> Yr 10 students visit for 5 weeks ! I'm currently teaching a group of VERY
> able Yr 6 students and I've been using Microworlds as a means of
> challenging/stimulating them. They - like me - LOVE working with
> Microworlds.  Their current main project is to create a procedure which
> 'forges'/reproduces an Aboriginal Australian painting [ commonly known as
> 'dot' art but perhaps more correctly known as Papunyah-Tula style
painting].
> They kids are doing a fabulous job - I never cease to be be amazed at
their
> tenacity/perseverance and singl-mindedness.
> 
>   In addition to this main project I also set them other less 'intense'
> projects - one of which is to create a tessellation project. They have
used
> the turtle to draw a range of tessellation tiles like  'Penrose rhombs' [
> Sir Roger Penrose- Cambridge Uni] - these rhomboids are an interesting
> mathematical 'phenomenon' . In order to tessellate the plane [ the Mw page
> ]the students should, ideally, be able to rotate each tile by clicking on
it
> [ ie.e., by clicking on the turtle-wearing-the-tile ] so that they can
> rotate it degree by degree if necessary in order to make the tessellation
> work. However, this is where I'm 'stuck' - I don't know how to make the
> turtle-as-a-tile rotate by clicking on it ! This of course is not an issue
> if the turtle is 'wearing' say a  square tessellation-tile because it does
> not have to be rotated in order to tessellate. [IS THIS MAKING SENSE ??]
Can
> anyone help please?
> 
>   We are currently using Microworlds v 2.03 and I'm wondering if the issue
I
> mention above would be non-issue if we were using Microworlds Pro.  That
is
> to say, would I be able to programme the turtle/tiles to rotate without
any
> problems if we were working in the MwPro environment. Is this the case?
> 
>   In several weeks our school will be moving from Win 98  to Win XP and
I'm
> also wondering if we should at the same time move on'up to MW Pro? Does
> anyone have any thoughts on this? 
> 
> Graham Williams
>