Unit 1
Journal entry date: 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.
link to game
It was important throughout this process that we remember the differences between translations, reflections, rotations, and dilations.
Unit 2
Journal entry date: 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.