Teaching materials

VIDEO

Watch the videos where Daniele Nannini explains how to draw and colour:

Daniele Nannini regularly holds workshops and meetings at schools. Notice to teachers: CONTACT US IF YOU WANT DANIELE TO GIVE A TALK OR HOLD A WORKSHOP AT YOUR SCHOOL OR IN YOUR LIBRARY.

Learn to draw with Daniele Nannini Learn to colour with Daniele Nannini

STUDENT ACTIVITIES| LEVEL 1

You can compass an animal yourself! Download the graph paper and try to reconstruct an animal by using only a compass. Simple instructions are included.
This page is also designed for teachers and for school use. Simply download the graph paper and follow the instructions [pdf].

Tiger  Panter  Dormouse  Racoon

STUDENT ACTIVITIES | LEVEL 2

This is a level for more advanced students who are able to work with a Cartesian plane and follow mathematical instructions. The compass Panda has been studied and redesigned geometrically by Fabrice Eudes, math professor and webmaster at the IREM of Lille, France (Research Institute in Mathematical Teaching).

Panda

Here you find (pdf) the construction grid, the construction grid with final image, the student file, the teacher file.

The Eudes Panda - Instructions Download a ZIP file with the above four level 2 PDF.

Dormouse



ANIMATIONS

Here is an example of an animation created by Christophe Poulain, a math instructor at Paul Eluard school in Beuvrages (France), and based on some of the animals in the Compasses Zoo.

Compasses zoo animation