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Erving Lighthouse Grant |
MicroWorlds is Logo-based computer software that allows students to explore fundamental mathematics concepts in an environment that fosters creativity and experimentation. Students direct a "turtle" around the screen using the keyboard commands which make up the Logo computer language. Lines of Logo commands can be combined into procedures (programs) that can be used to build complex shapes, designs, games and simulations. MicroWorlds provides students with an almost limitless environment for learning. Screen shot of a MicroWorlds screen: 
Some Basic MicroWorlds Commands Home Send
the turtle to the middle of the screen.
(This is the origin or [0 0] of a
Cartesian Plane.) Clear
Graphics CG Clears
everything except the turtle off the
screen Pen
Down PD Tells
the turtle to leave a trail Pen
Up PU Tells
the turtle not to leave a trail Remember
to leave a space between the command and
the quantity. Forward FD fd
50 Think
of forward and backward as turtle
steps.(FD 10 means 10 turtle steps
forward.) Backward BK bk
100 Right RT rt
180 Think
of right and left as the degrees in the
turtle's turn. Left LT lt
90 These
turtle turns are angular degrees of a
circle. (There are _______š in a
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