Unit 1
9/7/20
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.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hVP_gIFv28PEJurRxRSOexP_BT_SVybk9VmbEvHldzs/edit?usp=sharing
It was important throughout this process that we remember the differences between translations, reflections, rotations, and dilations. Translations are when the object moves left, right, up, or down, reflections are when the object is reflected on the x or y axis, rotations are when the object is rotated through the four planes, and dilations are when the object either gains size or gets smaller.
I have seen transformations in other classes such as my art class when we had to make an animation. In the animation, it consisted of rotations, dilations, translations, and reflections when the characters had to move and to show perspective.
Unit 2
11/2/20
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. Areas with more income have better access to hospitals, grocery stores and other resources while people who don’t have a big income are generally farther away.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17YC94iyCe-9dTUwKMynvj7gZ3t0YA32r9kW3wS7dKbI/edit?usp=sharing
In real life situations, trigonometry can be used to make roofs of houses as well as in cartography