Week of inspirational Math
Building Shapes:
For this assignment we had to create shapes out of a rope Dr. Drew supplied us with. We had to create a total of 6 shapes, the rope star, cube, square, square pyramid, tetrahedron, and octahedron . My group Coby ,Pablo ,Trey ,Matthew ,and I created a total of two shapes. The shapes that we created were the square and the pyramid. At first when we created the square we use each grabbed a side and said we were done but the wasn't the case. Dr. Drew told us to think more like a mathematician. So we folded the rope in half to have even sides. This led to having a perfect square. With the pyramid we also struggled because this was one of the most confusing shapes. But we started with the idea of the square but instead of folding it twice we did it four times, the we each grabbed two sides and one person pull the rope up and that gave us the pyramid shape.
Number of Visual Pennies:
For this part of the week of inspirational math we were given one hundred pennies and we had to make the shapes shown on our paper with the pennies. The stacks had to be even amounts throughout the shapes, but they didn't all have to be the same. We finished all the shapes and noticed that we had 10 extra pennies. There was a pentagon so we added 2 pennies to each of the five stacks of the pentagon that left us with zero pennies left which was our goal. This was the habit I think Dr. Drew encourages students to have.
One straight cut Scalene Triangle:
The one straight cut on a patty paper was a difficult assignment because we had to think of a way to cut the paper once and make a scalene triangle. But the catch is we couldn't use the side of the patty paper. I struggled a lot with this assignment because we had to be persistent and creative to solve this. I since it was the beginning of the school year had none of the above. I think that if I would've been more patient I would've completed this assignment.
Pattern in a Diagram:
This assignment we had to find the pattern to make more square in a rectangle. In the beginning I didn't know we could overlap to make more rectangles. I was talking to the academic coach Pablo and he said to look closer, then I did and solved this assignment for my table group. I was proud of this because I'm usually not the one to find the important pieces in an assignment.
Videos:
Throughout the week we watched videos about the habits of mathematician, these videos were cheesy but very eye opening. In one of the videos we saw that a student from Stanford couldn't afford a tutor, but the person still succeeded because he was persistent.
My favorite part:
My favorite part of the week was the building shapes, this was my favorite because it would seem easy, but it was very difficult because we had to do everything very exact. My most prideful moment was when I thought deeper and figured out what steps we had to do to complete the square and it was a very creative way. But then when we presented I saw that many people had the same mindset. In general I think it was something good to start the year with specially math and I think it wasn't just helpful to me but everyone in the room and learning the habits of a mathematician is going to help all of us for the rest of the year.
For this assignment we had to create shapes out of a rope Dr. Drew supplied us with. We had to create a total of 6 shapes, the rope star, cube, square, square pyramid, tetrahedron, and octahedron . My group Coby ,Pablo ,Trey ,Matthew ,and I created a total of two shapes. The shapes that we created were the square and the pyramid. At first when we created the square we use each grabbed a side and said we were done but the wasn't the case. Dr. Drew told us to think more like a mathematician. So we folded the rope in half to have even sides. This led to having a perfect square. With the pyramid we also struggled because this was one of the most confusing shapes. But we started with the idea of the square but instead of folding it twice we did it four times, the we each grabbed two sides and one person pull the rope up and that gave us the pyramid shape.
Number of Visual Pennies:
For this part of the week of inspirational math we were given one hundred pennies and we had to make the shapes shown on our paper with the pennies. The stacks had to be even amounts throughout the shapes, but they didn't all have to be the same. We finished all the shapes and noticed that we had 10 extra pennies. There was a pentagon so we added 2 pennies to each of the five stacks of the pentagon that left us with zero pennies left which was our goal. This was the habit I think Dr. Drew encourages students to have.
One straight cut Scalene Triangle:
The one straight cut on a patty paper was a difficult assignment because we had to think of a way to cut the paper once and make a scalene triangle. But the catch is we couldn't use the side of the patty paper. I struggled a lot with this assignment because we had to be persistent and creative to solve this. I since it was the beginning of the school year had none of the above. I think that if I would've been more patient I would've completed this assignment.
Pattern in a Diagram:
This assignment we had to find the pattern to make more square in a rectangle. In the beginning I didn't know we could overlap to make more rectangles. I was talking to the academic coach Pablo and he said to look closer, then I did and solved this assignment for my table group. I was proud of this because I'm usually not the one to find the important pieces in an assignment.
Videos:
Throughout the week we watched videos about the habits of mathematician, these videos were cheesy but very eye opening. In one of the videos we saw that a student from Stanford couldn't afford a tutor, but the person still succeeded because he was persistent.
My favorite part:
My favorite part of the week was the building shapes, this was my favorite because it would seem easy, but it was very difficult because we had to do everything very exact. My most prideful moment was when I thought deeper and figured out what steps we had to do to complete the square and it was a very creative way. But then when we presented I saw that many people had the same mindset. In general I think it was something good to start the year with specially math and I think it wasn't just helpful to me but everyone in the room and learning the habits of a mathematician is going to help all of us for the rest of the year.