Objectives
Students use the midpoint rule in a program. The program is relatively straight forward, but the outcome is amazing.
Vocabulary
| Mathematics |
Coding |
- Square-root
- Midpoint
- Weighted Av.
- Sequence
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- For / Endfor
- If / Then
- List Creation
- List Referencing
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About the Lesson
Students start with a triangle drawn on the Cartesian plane. A point is placed at random inside the triangle. Students calculate the midpoint of this new point and one of the triangle's vertices. Another vertex is selected at random and a new midpoint created. What appears random and chaotic gradually turns to form, a Sierpinski triangle. Some very simple coding that interacts nicely with the Graphs application and a beautiful result, absolutely stunning!