Unit 4-Desmos Drawing and Function Families
Link to actual Desmos Drawing-https://www.desmos.com/calculator/rbvxpje1yu
Unit 3: Area, Volume, and Measurement
Q1: What content/skills have been most interesting to you?
I think that this semester, learning how to use a graphing calculator has been interesting and helpful. While looking back, I realize that by knowing how to properly use a calculator I can plug in a generalization function and quickly, and accurately, get answers. Another thing I found interesting was the equations for finding volume and how simple they actually are. Finally, returning to generalization; I found it interesting and very helpful to be able to see what you are doing to get the answers so that it is easier to solve the problem through comprehension. These gained skills will help in future math problems.
Q2: How have you grown mathematically?
This semester, I have grown mathematically to be able to better visualize problems. I gained this through POW 4: Almost a Rubik's Cube. Just through that, I had to be able to almost see inside the cube to calculate them. Also, I have had to keep persevering through tough problems and finding eligible equations and what not. Skills/content (stated above) have also helped me in tough problems. Overall, I believe that I have learned a lot of useful tools to help me succeed in future math classes.
I think that this semester, learning how to use a graphing calculator has been interesting and helpful. While looking back, I realize that by knowing how to properly use a calculator I can plug in a generalization function and quickly, and accurately, get answers. Another thing I found interesting was the equations for finding volume and how simple they actually are. Finally, returning to generalization; I found it interesting and very helpful to be able to see what you are doing to get the answers so that it is easier to solve the problem through comprehension. These gained skills will help in future math problems.
Q2: How have you grown mathematically?
This semester, I have grown mathematically to be able to better visualize problems. I gained this through POW 4: Almost a Rubik's Cube. Just through that, I had to be able to almost see inside the cube to calculate them. Also, I have had to keep persevering through tough problems and finding eligible equations and what not. Skills/content (stated above) have also helped me in tough problems. Overall, I believe that I have learned a lot of useful tools to help me succeed in future math classes.
Shadows, Similarity, and Right Triangle Triginometry
Q1: What has been the work you are most proud of in this unit?
am most proud of how much I have learned regarding right triangle trigonometry. I feel like I understood the concepts fairly quickly and therefore could go even farther in learning about these concepts. An example of this would be learning equations that I could use to find an angle or side of a scalene or isosceles, or equilateral. The equations are just complicated, for lack of a better word, equations of sine, cosine, and tangent. With this extend skill that I gained, I can apply it to more situations than I could with just the equations for right triangles.
Q2: What skills are you developing in geometry/math?
A really important skill that I have picked up this semester was learning how to properly use a graphing calculator. This is something that I will defiantly use for years to come. Another skill I have worked on this semester is problem solving. I gained this skill through Problems of Week (POW). This is yet another skill that will benefit me for the rest of my life; having the capability to pick apart and solve any problem.
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
(i.e. scaled replicas of sculptures, gearing ratios, scaled models for architecture, trigonometry in construction or blood splatter analysis, etc).
am most proud of how much I have learned regarding right triangle trigonometry. I feel like I understood the concepts fairly quickly and therefore could go even farther in learning about these concepts. An example of this would be learning equations that I could use to find an angle or side of a scalene or isosceles, or equilateral. The equations are just complicated, for lack of a better word, equations of sine, cosine, and tangent. With this extend skill that I gained, I can apply it to more situations than I could with just the equations for right triangles.
Q2: What skills are you developing in geometry/math?
A really important skill that I have picked up this semester was learning how to properly use a graphing calculator. This is something that I will defiantly use for years to come. Another skill I have worked on this semester is problem solving. I gained this skill through Problems of Week (POW). This is yet another skill that will benefit me for the rest of my life; having the capability to pick apart and solve any problem.
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
(i.e. scaled replicas of sculptures, gearing ratios, scaled models for architecture, trigonometry in construction or blood splatter analysis, etc).
A Wave of Whales
More Like Art 10/17/14My tessellation is a whale wearing a crown jumping out of water. I didn't have an idea of what I was going to make in the beginning, so this is what I saw in my finished tessellation. I like to come up with random more unusual things and this is what I saw in this specific tile. I started with a square and I wanted to make a translation tessellation. So, I cut out a curve on one side, translated it to the other, and taped it. I repeated those steps on the other side.
I think that tessellations are artsy that mathematical. To start, you are tracing, drawing, and coloring. Tessellations contain shapes, patterns, and designs which are all part of art. Completed tessellations are used in tiles, mosaics, and quilts--all forms of art. I think that MC Escher considered it art rather than math. He did all of his work without any instruction in mathematics beyond high school. Even though tessellations may have some mathematical qualities in them, I think that they are mostly art. |