Ben, thank you for adding a new approach to using Maps in fun and creative ways. I love how students can better understand math concepts using their “own backyard.” Thanks again for sharing😀
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Apple Maps with Original Keynote Shapes: Protractors & Rulers
There is an extensive library of custom shapes available in Keynote, useful for a variety of purposes. But two shapes that are missing from the library are a ruler and a protractor. So I decided to make my own, and apply them to measuring displacement and direction in a screenshot from Apple Maps.
They are shared in the Keynote file below, along with a few YouTube videos on how I use these to measure and add displacement vectors in my Physics classes. Full disclosure: both videos are over 20 minutes each. You may want to watch at least the beginning of the first video, as I explain some of the differences between the protractors.
YouTube video 1:
YouTube video 2:
But whether Physics is your thing or not, there is a whole host of uses for ruler and protractor shapes in Keynote (Mathematics, Engineering, Geography, Navigation, to name a few) and you are welcome to use and/or modify them however you wish.
Educate with excellence,
Ben
Screenshot of rulers and protractors Keynote shapes
Screenshot of Apple Maps with ruler and protractor Keynote shapes overlaid
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Glad to, Kip! Let me know if there are any other ways I can help support Maps. Cheers!
I love this Ben! What a great way to connect math - measurement, and geometry too - to Maps.
This is great Ben! Thanks so much for sharing. I was able to share this with a teacher during a coaching cycle where she was teaching her fourth graders to accurately measure and classify angles. She copied your protractor shape over into a Freeform Board and students used it there! Thanks again, I can’t wait to see what other ideas you share.
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Posted on August 28, 2022
Wow - thanks for the tutorials and the new shapes. Very helpful!