9/7/2020

One way that we applied transformations to the real world was through discussing how video games were made when they were designed by hand in the early 1980s. We went through the process of designing our own video games which consisted of translations, rotations, and reflections that helped navigate the players of the video game.

It was important throughout this process that we remember the differences between translations, reflections, rotations, and dilations. Translations are transformations where images slide to another point on the coordinate plane. Reflections reflect an image over an x or y axis. Rotations rotate an image from a point. Dilations scale an image to be proportionally smaller or larger.

Transformations can apply to the real world when any image/object changes. When I draw digitally, and I want to rescale a selected area to be bigger, I dilate it by a number greater than 1.

Unit 2 Project

11/2/2020

One way that right triangle trigonometry applies to the real world is through finding the length of distances between 2 points. In geometry we used google maps and created right triangles from different neighborhoods in Atlanta. We used trig. Ratios to determine the length of the distance between the neighborhoods to different resources such as the hospital and grocery store. We then compared the length of these distances to the income in the neighborhoods. This helped to show the inequalities present in many areas in Atlanta. I came to a conclusion how the wage gap and the further distance to necessary locations could be in relation to systemic racism, for one neighborhood is affluent and predominantly Haitian, yet still paid less than the other; which is predominantly white.

While helping my dad build a new gate for the front porch, he needed a cable that stretched from one corner to another. I used the Pythagorean theorem to get the measurements he needed.