Sine City
Our project was about the San Marcos Creek Devolpment. This means we as a class got to make what we would like to see in San Marcos. For example each group was in charge of a certian area on San Marcos Blvd. We got to measure our land and put to scale on papers and got to act in the role of being an engineer, architect, or surveying. My main job was the floor planning this is what the inside of our building should look like. We decided as a group to do commertial building on the bottom story and residential on the second. We were only allowed two stories because we had to follow the San Marcos requierments for our buildings.
Math Learning |
I learned with trigonometry that its not just about triangles but can help with angles and where the sun will shine and where to place certian windows or doors. Laws of Sines we can figure out when measuring our lot on the spots we may not have been able to reach because of bushes or fences. I learned a lot about where the sun is at certian times with using the sun path and the sun path helps with where to put windows so that the sun can shine in a certian area. I applied what I know about transformation, symmetry, and similarity with the buildings and how to transform to use them for other buildings.
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Reflection |
My biggest take away would be the sun path and how hard it is to scale and think about how big a bedroom needs to be to be comfertable. I grew as a mathematician because in this project there wasn't that much help with anything and I learned how to problem solve myself and get information myself and I feel thats a huge part for being a good mathematian for senior year. Challenges I faced was communication with my group and who was doing what and how are we going to finish this before the deadline but we ended up going through with it and having it in on time. Parts I enjoyed were the exibition and seeing how everyones projects turned out.
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Exibition
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For my group we didnt exactly focus on our roles that much because we all helped in general. Some challenges we faced were we lost a lot of the work and we didn't know if we would make the deadline or not but we ended making it. I think overall the project came out to be a success and Im happy about the apperance and how it all came out.
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