Comments on: [Help Wanted] Draw A Rectangle

By: Trying Again – QC Voices

Trying Again – QC Voices — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:15:40 +0000

[…] was checking out Dan Meyer’s blog (again) and he had conducted an experimentÂ with other Lovers Of Math, where he asked any person to make and submit a rectangle on the web. […]

By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » 1,400 Rectangles

dy/dan » Blog Archive » 1,400 Rectangles — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:12:40 +0000

[…] a different dave wrote: I predict that the shape of the rectangles is going to be very heavily influenced by the shape of the canvas provided. […]

By: Andrew Stadel

Andrew Stadel — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:54:58 +0000

That was the easiest thing I did all day!

By: a different Dave

a different Dave — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:35:38 +0000

I predict that the shape of the rectangles is going to be very heavily influenced by the shape of the canvas provided.

By: Amir

Amir — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:04:11 +0000

“Bizarre to note: In Wales “squares” and “diamonds” (tilted squares, not rhombuses) are two different things.”

Reminds me of when I talk to students about oblongs. ‘That’s a rectangle’, they cry. ‘Actually it’s a rectangle that’s not square’, I respond. Much puzzlement ensues!

By: Jason Dyer

Jason Dyer — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:42:42 +0000

I wonder how many people draw a square, just to be different? I'm wondering how much the interface affects answers. I clicked twice intending to get something more rectangular but eyeballed wrong so it ended up square-ish, and rather than bothering with changing around my answer I just hit send. Fun to note: there are places in the world that still follow original Euclid so that a square is not a type of rectangle. Would people from those locations shy away from the square-like rectangles more? Bizarre to note: In Wales "squares" and "diamonds" (tilted squares, not rhombuses) are two different things.

By: Telannia

Telannia — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:36:35 +0000

I am getting an error message to and I tried two different browsers.

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:01:24 +0000

I got an error message also.

By: Ginger

Ginger — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:22:15 +0000

I’m getting an error message that starts like this:

Errno::ENOENT in Rects#index

Showing /var/www/railsapps/rectangle/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb where line #5 raised:
No such file or directory – /var/www/railsapps/rectangle/tmp/cache/assets/sprockets%2Fd585a06e2ee6203ccb04c8b84150d14d20121023-32745-ewt05k.lock

By: Dave Major

Dave Major — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:21:10 +0000

Currently just 9 ;-)