http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2008/06/14/sarah-burwood-tumble-sums/ Design and human behaviour Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:34:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2008/06/14/sarah-burwood-tumble-sums/comment-page-1/#comment-274671 Monkey Plunger » Blog Archive » Thoughtful Acts Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:38:45 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/?p=321#comment-274671 [...] It reminds me of an example I saw in a (GCSE?) design & technology textbook, where a student’s design for a ‘machine to sort two different sizes of marbles’ (a brief which may conjure up images of sensors, comparators, gates, etc) was simply two diverging steel rails made out of coat hangers, with two trays underneath, so that as they rolled along the rails, smaller marbles dropped into the first tray and larger marbles into the second. We don’t see that sort of design thinking often enough - I guess it’s a kind of analogue computing (I know I’ve gone on about it before). [...] [...] It reminds me of an example I saw in a (GCSE?) design & technology textbook, where a student’s design for a ‘machine to sort two different sizes of marbles’ (a brief which may conjure up images of sensors, comparators, gates, etc) was simply two diverging steel rails made out of coat hangers, with two trays underneath, so that as they rolled along the rails, smaller marbles dropped into the first tray and larger marbles into the second. We don’t see that sort of design thinking often enough – I guess it’s a kind of analogue computing (I know I’ve gone on about it before). [...]

]]> http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2008/06/14/sarah-burwood-tumble-sums/comment-page-1/#comment-207925 None of 3 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:52:29 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/?p=321#comment-207925 Up to and including, or up to but not including? Up to and including, or up to but not including?

]]> http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2008/06/14/sarah-burwood-tumble-sums/comment-page-1/#comment-206626 John Kestner Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:57:55 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/?p=321#comment-206626 Montessori materials do a great job of visually explaining many math concepts, up to factoring polynomials and the quadratic equation. Montessori materials do a great job of visually explaining many math concepts, up to factoring polynomials and the quadratic equation.

]]> http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2008/06/14/sarah-burwood-tumble-sums/comment-page-1/#comment-204834 Dumpster Diving « Shawn Shahani Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:54:41 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/?p=321#comment-204834 [...] then I read this post from one of my favorite blogs, Architectures in Control, where the author finds a book that heavily [...] [...] then I read this post from one of my favorite blogs, Architectures in Control, where the author finds a book that heavily [...]

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