In geometry, I applied transformations by designing a video game with 3 levels. After designing my video game, I turned the video game into an animation. The goal of my game was to travel to the Indus River Valley without being harmed by the evil witch. In order to complete my game, translations, rotations, reflections, and dilations had to be used. It was important throughout the process that we remembered the differences for each transformation. The difference between the different transformations is that each level added onto the different transformations. For example, level 1 included translations, which slide, and dilations, which increase or decrease in size. While level 2 incorporated translations, rotations, that rotate the object, and reflections, that reflect the previous position onto a new location on a coordinate plane.
In Geometry, I learned about the properties of parallelograms and used the properties to design a piece of stained glass. The inspiration for my stained glass was a flower. My partner and I felt that a flower made with parallelograms would be a unique image to create and look at The shapes I included in my design were triangles, rhombuses, rectangles, and parallelograms. I made sure that my parallelograms abided by the properties of parallelograms which are that opposite sides are parallel, opposite sides are congruent, opposite angles are congruent, consecutive angles are supplementary, and diagonals bisect each other.
Our sector area and arc length activity involved cookies, rulers, and protractors. We found measurements of what was asked of us and we used those in finding our solutions for sector area and arc length. I found that the area of the whole cookie and the area of the four sectors was only .11 centimeters apart.
For our circles and volumes unit project, we designed water bottles using composites and 3D shapes. In my project, I used a rectangular prism and a rectangular pyramid. We constructed these designs on paper and made our measurements using calculators and formuals taught to us during this unit.
Our final project in Geometry focused on surveys and probability. My partner, Madison Robinson, and I surveyed people across our school on whether or not they believed that gun licenses were mandatory to carry guns in Georgia per the new gun law passed in Georgia on April 13, 2022.