Desmos Drawing
Here is the link for my drawing. https://www.desmos.com/calculator/46chowcio1?create_account
Unit 3 Reflection: Area, Volume, Measurement
Q1: What content/skills have been most interesting to you?
I think the most interesting skill I have learned is how to find the volume of something and how that relates to the surface area of the 3D object.
Q2: How have you grown mathematically?
I have been able to know why the equation for finding the area of a circle and how exactly pie was created/discovered.
I think the most interesting skill I have learned is how to find the volume of something and how that relates to the surface area of the 3D object.
Q2: How have you grown mathematically?
I have been able to know why the equation for finding the area of a circle and how exactly pie was created/discovered.
Unit 2: Shadows, Similarity and Right Triangle Trigonometry
Q1: What has been the work you are most proud of in this unit?
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Q2: What skills are you developing in geometry/math?
Q3: Choose one topic: similarity (ratios) or trigonometry. Explain what it is. Provide an example of how it is used in mathematics to solve problems. State an application of the topic in the adult world that interests you.
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Q2: What skills are you developing in geometry/math?
Q3: Choose one topic: similarity (ratios) or trigonometry. Explain what it is. Provide an example of how it is used in mathematics to solve problems. State an application of the topic in the adult world that interests you.
BURNING Tent:
Questions
- Once you have the minimal path, what appears to be true about the incoming angle and the outgoing angle?
- Why is the segment from Camper to TentFire’ the shortest path?
- Where should the point river be relative to the segment Camper to TentFire’, and line AB so that the sum of the distances is minimized?
Snail Trail Lab
Reflection
It was a lot simpler than you think we just made points and made a reflection on the points. This project really helped me see all the symmetries. It was a great to build the drawing as well. The trace was weared, the slower you went the more solid the line would be. The faster you went it made a lot of circles. It would be line symmetry and rotational symmetry.
Tesslation
What is the idea/theme behind your tessellation?
Our theme is a happy plant, a tree, if you will. This tree was inspired by our original polygon, a triangle. When we cut out our curve, three points emerged in the subtle forms of branches, roots, and a trunk. We used a method called improvisation because we had no original idea for our tessellation, but we used our imagination to find the outline of the tree. One half of our tiles are trees and the other half is an orange background.
What polygons did you start with and how did you alter them (transformation)?
The polygon we used to start our tessellation tile was a triangle. Three points, three sides. Our triangle is a isosceles triangle, two equal sides. We transformed the triangle into a tree-esc shape by tracing a curve on each of the sides.
In your opinion, are tessellations math or art?
I think that tessellations are a combination of art and math because, for me, art is creative, spontaneous, and somewhat whimsical. On the other hand, math is constant, invariable. Its simple because one is always equal to one. Art is more of the imagination of the tessellation. Figuring out what I looks like has nothing to do with math. To make the pice of art look beautiful you need to have an artistic dream.
On the other hand to make the tessellation you need to have some basic math skills. You need to know how to Translate or rotate the image. Also if you look at M.C. Escher art work you can see the math that he puts into his work. In our tessellation we had to rotate the image 120 digress because we use a triangle as our original shape.