October 05, 2011

Period 5 Geometry In Our World

October 05, 2011

Name: Barnes

Reflection: This project allowed me to open up my eyes and realize what a huge role geometry plays in my everyday life. Everything around me is influenced by geometry. This project helped me see the shapes, angles, lines, and other figures within the objects I encounter daily.

Location: In my Kitchen

Bonus

Description: Two angles in this photo of a volleyball represent acute angles in real life. An acute angle is an angle that has a measure of less than 90 degrees. In an equilaqteral triangle, all of the angles are acute. There are many examples of acute angles in real life.

Location: SUNYA Description: A pyramid is a three dimensional figure. The base is a polygon. It is usually a square, but it can also be many other shapes. The sides of the pyramid are triangles. They meet at the top of the pyramid. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is the pyramids located in Egypt. Pyramids have been used all over the world, in the past and the present.

Location: In my kitchen Description: The photo of the candy bar represents a triangular prism in real life. A triangular prism is a three dimensional figure. Two opposite sides are triangles, and the other faces are parallelograms. There are many triangular prisms in the world around us.

October 05, 2011

Name: Berger

Reflection: This project really got me to look at math in a new way. Now I see math is more than just numbers and equations, but also life as we know it. Also it gave me a better understanding of why math is so important to learn and know.

Location: Down town Albany Description: "A cylinder is made up of a circle on the top and bottom. An elongated circle is what makes up the middle of a cylinder. when looking straight on at a cylinder there is a pair of parallel lines and a circle that is shown and a circle that is not shown."

Location: Down town Albany Description: "A rectangular prism has three pairs of parallel sides. The line where two sides meet make right angles. Rectangular prisms contain skew lines, lines that will never intersect and are not on the same plane. "

October 05, 2011

Name: Bolognino

Reflection: This project was a very important one. It made me realize geometry is important and is all around us.

Location: My house Description: The markers in that position represent alternate interior angles. Alternate interior angles are 2 angles on the inside of paralell lines when they are intersected by a transversal. alternate interior angles are congruent (or the same).

Location:My House Description: The Table top represents a plane. A plane is a flat surface with no thickness that extends in all directions. Planes are all around us all the time, this includes the walls, the floor, and the ceiling.

October 05, 2011

Name: Bouchard
Reflection: This project really opened my eyes to all of the geometric figures that can be found in everyday life. It was enjoyable to have a different assignment for a change in mathematics which required "hands- on" work searching for geometric shapes rather than calculating traditional math on paper.

Location: My Kitchen Description: "This multi-grain cracker represents a hexagon. Hexagons have six (6) straight sides and six (6) angles. A hexagon is a closed two (2) dimensional polygon. The interior angle sum of a hexagon must be equal to 720 degrees. "

Location: My Family Room Description: The staircase of my house represents a parellogram. A parallelogram is a plane polygon with four (4) sides. It is a two (2) dimensional figure, and it has opposite sides parallel to each other. A parallelogram traditionally resembles a slanted rectangle. However, other two (2) dimensional figures, such as a square and a rectangle, may be classified as parallelograms as well.

October 05, 2011

Name:Buchanan

Reflection :From this project I learned that math can be fun. I never knew that math could ever be connected to photography, until I was assigned this project. Now I view math a completely different way and the world around us as well.

Location: Red Sox Description:On the scoreboard at the baseball stadium, Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, I found corresponding angles. Corresponding angles are created where a transversal crosses other lines, which are usually parallel. Sometimes you see corresponding angles forming ninety degree angles, like in this picture, but they do not have to be.

Bonus

Location: Living Room Description:In this photo, are parallel lines. Lines are considered parallel if they lie in the same plane. Also, parallel lines will never intersect. That is one way you can tell if lines are parallel or not, because if they will eventually intersect, they cannot be parallel.

Location: RI Description:I found a right triangle when I was in Newport, Rhode Island looking at sail boats. A right triangle is a triangle that has a ninety degree angle inside of it. Even though we might not realize it, there are right triangles everywhere. For example, if you were to put a line diagonally through a square or rectangle, you would be left with two right triangles.

October 05, 2011

Name: Clough

Reflection: This project made me see that everything in life has to do with Math. If you take a look around you will see some similar objects that you learn in math class.This was a fun project that made me want to look for more.

Bonus
Location: Playground Description: I was playing at a playground with my friends when i saw that at the tops of posts were pyramids. This is a pyramid because it has triangular sides that meet at one vertex. The base of a pyramid is a perfect square.

Location: Basketball court Description: I was shooting hoops and when I was about to shoot i saw that my basketball was a sphere. A sphere is a round,solid, three demensional figure.It has no edges or vertices, and is perfectly symmetrical. Another example of a sphere is the Earth.

Location: My house Description: "My dad and I were both on our laptops and I saw that the laptops were both rectangular similar figures. Similar figures are figures that have the same shape but not the same size. All solids are similar if any two corresponding sides or planes are proportional. "

October 05, 2011

Name: Cotugno

Reflection: I learned that our world would probly fall apart without geomatry. If we didn't look a geometry, our strutures would probly fall to peices around us.

Location: My House Description: This is a example of a Angle Bisector I found in one of the windows in my house. The suports in the window make a angle with another support acts as a bisector on the angle. A angle bisector is a line in which cuts an angle in two equal halves.

Location: My house Description: This example of a Equilateral Triangle I found on a pare of my sister's ear phones. The trianglular shape of the ear peice makes a Equilateral Triangle. A Equilaterl Triangle which has all three side of equal length. A Equilateral Triangle is the strongest geometric shape, that is why you see it in many support structures.

October 05, 2011

Name:Dignum
Reflection: I learned shapes and angles are sometimes difficult to find. However when you start to find them they are everywhere.

Location: My backyard Description: This concrete tile was cut to fit our walkway. It turned out to be an ajacent angle. An adjacent angle is an angle split by a ray making two angles.

Bonus

Location: My Dining Room Description: The entrance from my dining room to my kitchen makes a right angle. The rays that make up a right angle are infinite. A right angle is 90 degrees.
Location: My Hallway Description: My crooked hanging frame created a perfect scalene triangle. I waited until I took the picture to straighten it. A scalene triangle is a trianlge made up of three different side lengths.

October 05, 2011

Name: JeanPierre

Reflection: This was the first time I've done a math project like this. This project showed me that geometry is all around us in our daily lives.

Location: My Living Rom Description: This wooden shelf above my fireplace is an example of a midpoint. A midpoint is a point that divides, or bisects, a segment into two congruent segments. A midpoint doesn't have to be just a line. A midpoint can be a place, on a line, or a point all by itself.

Location: My backyard Description: This picture of power lines shows an example of a line with a zero slope. A horizontal line that does not cross the x-axis is a line with a zero slope. All the points in a horizontal line have the same y-coordinate.

October 05, 2011

Name: Keegan

Reflection: I learned how many skew lines a person sees everyday. i also learned that a ray can be a flashlight or a laser.

Location: Driving Description: Ray is a line that starts at a point and continuously goes into a direction infinity. The sun set shows the sun rays good. Another good example of a Ray a laser or a flashlight.

Location: My nieghbor's garage Description: Skew Lines are lines that are in different planes that do not intersect, but are not parallel. Skew Lines are on different planes which means thay can't intersect. Skew Lines are also not coplanar which means they can't intersect and can't be parallel.

October 05, 2011

Name: King

Reflection: I learned that we are always sorrounded by math and you can find it wherever you go. It also helped make the complitcated terms easier to understand.

Location: Town Park Description: This photograph of a field goal represents an example of a right angle. A right angle is an angle that forms 90 degrees. A right angle is formed by the intersection of perpendicular lines.

Location: At Target Description: This picture represents an example of a sphere. A sphere is a three-dimensional circle that is completely rounded. Spheres contain no sides.

October 05, 2011

Name:Leren

Reflection: "This project made me look at ordinarily objects differently. I guess math really is everything and everywhere :)"

Location: Living Room Description: "Perpendicular lines- lines that intersect forming right angles and have negative reciprocal for slopes. When two lines are perpendicular to each other (at right angles or 90), their slopes have a particular relationship to each other. If the slope of one line is m then the slope of the other line is the negative reciprocal of m."

Bonus

Location: Outside
Location: My Kitchen Description: "Isosceles triangle- a triangle with two equal sides. If two sides of a triangle are congruent, the angles opposite them are congruent. Fun Fact: If the bisector of an angle in a triangle is perpendicular to the opposite side, the triangle is isosceles. "

Description: "Intersecting lines-an intersection is a single point where two lines meet or cross each other. Fun fact- The common point where all the intersecting lines meet is called the Point of Intersection. All the intersecting lines form angles at the point of intersection."

October 05, 2011

Name : MacEachron

Reflection: This project made me realize how abundant geometry is in things around us. Now I think twice when I look at objects.

Bonus Location: My dog Description: The corner of my dogs eye represents an angle,more specifically an acute angle. An angle is the union of two rays that have the same vertex. An acute angle is an angle that measures less than 90 degrees.

Location: My Living Room Description: The corners of my phone keyboard represents congruent angles. Congruent angles are angles that have the same measure.However, they are not required to be in the same direction to be classified as congruent angles Location: My dining Room Description: The shelves in my desk represent a line perpendicular to a plane. A line is perpendicular to a plane when the line connects to the plane and forms two right angles.Right angles are exactly equal to 90 degrees.

October 05, 2011

Name:Moffre
Reflection: This project opened my eyes to all the geometry in our world. Also, it was easy and fun to do.

Location: My Living Room Description: The lamp shade shows two parallel lines from top to bottom and the other two lines going left to right are not parallel, making it a trapezoid. A Trapezoid is a closed plane figure bounded by four line segments, or sides. The area of a trapezoid is equal to half the product of the altitude and the sum of the bases.

Location: My KItchen Description: "The top of the wall is a straight angle, showing 180 degrees. A straight angle is an angle of 180 degrees. A straight angle changes the direction to point the opposite way. "

October 05, 2011

Name:Nunez

Reflection: This project made me realize that math is everywhere. When we think we are looking at a random object that we use everyday, it can relate to math and be a certain mathematical shape. This project was really cool and when I see things I think about what the shape is really called.

Location: Target Store

Bonus

Description: This Target logo represents concentric circles. Concentric circles are two or more circles that have the same center. Concentric circles are a special type of coplanar circles which have no points of intersection.

Location: Outside my house Description: This picture of a power pole and line represent perpendicular lines. Perpendicular lines are lines that intersect, forming right angles and have negative reciprocals for slopes. When two intersecting lines form perpendicular lines,a red square may be used to indicate it. Location: Inside Target Description: This bathroom container represents a cube. A cube is a box shaped solid object that has six identical square faces. A cube is one of the five regular polyhedra called Platonic solids after the Greek philosopher Plato.

October 05, 2011

Name: Ross

Reflection: This project showed me that geometry is everywhere. I learned that everywhere I look i can find something that has to do with geometry!

Location: My house Description: The lines between the keys on a keyboard are examples of line segments. A line segment is a part of a line consisting two points. The line segment is named with is two end points.

Location: Target Description: The ceiling and the wall at Target are examples of perpendicular planes. Perpendicular planes are two planes that intersect to form a right angle. Planes are infinite in all directions.

October 05, 2011

Name:Schaefer

Reflection: One thing that I learned from this project, is that there are more shapes around me than I thought there were. Another thing that I learned, was that I should carry my math/geometry knowledge with me throughout my life because it never goes away. I am glad to have learned these things through this project.

Location: my deck

Bonus

Description: These three flowers on this line represent collinear points. Collinear points are points that lay on the same line. There have to be at least three points on the line in order for it to be considered collinear points.

Location: At The Great Sacandaga Lake, by the water. Description:"This crayfish represents a parabola. A parabola is a conic section formed by the intersection of a cone by a plane parallel to its side. The word parabola comes from the Greek word 'parabole'. " Location: Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania Description: This gateway represents opposite rays. Opposite rays are two rays that share the same endpoint, and lie on the same line. Opposite rays always make up a line.

October 05, 2011

Name: Semmes

Reflection: This project was really cool, it required some thought to come up with something, but I had a lot of fun. I now recognize a lot of geometric figures in my everyday life.

Location: my kitchen Description: This triangle shaped brick of Swiss cheese represents a triangle. A triangle is a regular polygon with three sides and its interior angles add up to 180 degrees. A form of the triangle, the right triangle can be use with trigonometry to accurately calculate distances.

Bonus

Location: RPI Pool Description: The lanes lines in Robison Pool represent parallel lines. Parallel lines are lines that have the same slope and are coplanar. Even though these lines stretch to infinity, they will NEVER intersect.
Location: My House Description: The side of my house represents a pentagon. A pentagon is a regular polygon with five sides and its interior angles add up to 540 degrees. The largest office building in the world by area, "The Pentagon", is in the shape of a pentagon.

October 05, 2011

Name: Comolli

Reflection: Everything we use is based off geometry. Everything we build and use has an angle or is based off a simple shape.

Location: Piano Description: "Congruent angles are angles that are equal. Congruent angles are seen in everyday life. Geometry is in our world. "

Location: Bathroom Description: A line with an undefined slope is a line that cant be defined. A line with an undefined slope is vertical. All vertical lines have undefined slopes.

October 05, 2011

Name: Hiffa

Reflection: I learned that there is geomtry all around us. Also, we should take our time to look more around the world for geometry shapes and lines.

Location: My Kitchen Description: The pitcure i took of was my bookshelf and it shows intersecting planes because the two planes are intersected by the line.

Location: My Kitchen Description: My windowns in my kitchen represents intersecting lines. They eah intersect to have a 90 degree angles.

October 05, 2011

Name: Whitcomb Geometry Term 1

Reflection: I never really noticed all the shapes surrounding me, for example the rectangle, at soccer, the goals are rectangular, my TV, which is also rectanguler. Then the radius, I never thought of the clock with two overlapping hands as a radius until this project, and thats only 1/30 of all the other possible shapes to photograph.

Location: Grandpas Lake House Description: The perimeter of the glass panel of my grandparents coffee table resembles a rectangle. A rectangle is a parallelogram with four right angles. The opposite central angles of a rectangle are congruent and the opposite sides are equal in length and are also parallel. Geometry Term 1

Location:Adirondack Diner(near grandparents' house) Description: The two overlapping clock hands that connect with the perimeter of the rectangle resembles a radius. A radius is a segment whose endpoints are the center of the circle and a point on the circle, or the disance from the center of the circle to any point on the circle. A circle has an infinite amount of lines of symmetry.

October 05, 2011

Name: Dignum

Reflection: I learned shapes and angles are sometimes difficult to find. However when you start to find them they are everywhere.

Bonus

Location: My backyard Description: This concrete tile was cut to fit our walkway. It turned out to be an ajacent angle. An adjacent angle is an angle split by a ray making two angles.

Location: My dining room Description: The entrance from my dining room to my kitchen makes a right angle. The rays that make up a right angle are infinite. A right angle is 90 degrees.

Location: My hallway Description: My crooked hanging frame created a perfect scalene triangle. I waited until I took the picture to straighten it. A scalene triangle is a trianlge made up of three different side lengths.