Math has been kind of difficult this year, not because of everything we have been learning but we had to change our teacher half way through the year. This affected my grade because they had different ways of teaching but I am finally getting the gist of how they each teach.
I am doing a project with Kyle Truax. First, we were going to do a picture of a flower and graph all the lines but then we found out we needed trigonometry to make side way parabolas and we couldn’t finish that.
Then, we decided to learn how to do tessellations the word ‘tessera’ in Latin means a small stone cube. They were used to make up ‘tessellata’- the mosaic pictures forming floors and tiling’s in Roman buildings. A tessellation is a pattern of plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps or gaps. We had to figure out how to fit the sides of each shape into every other shape. To do that, you have to find the angles to each ide to see if they fit into the other shape. The hardest part about this project was trying to relate it to our math this year. We didn’t study tessellations, we just figured out how to do this on our own.
We made two different full page tessellations and colored them. We also are going to have a little game for people to make their own tessellation during exhibition. The game will have differ shapes that fit into each other to make a puzzle. If they can or cant do the game, we are going to explain what happened if they couldn’t or if it did work, why it worked and how the angles fit together.
If you are good with angles and making things fit, you can be a pretty good architect. If you are an architect you have to work with all sorts of different angles and see where the wood matches up each edge.
During this project I realized how hard it actually is to fit pieces together and make perfect angles. To design any type of building you have to match up the sides to each thing and by figuring this out you have to design such objects that will fit together. Now that I know how it works I wont just see a beautiful building and not think about it. I will look deeper into it and realize how you make it.
