Benchmark #4 Scaling America
While working on this project I had a really awesome time because we have never worked on something like this using scaling. I really think the purpose of us this was to show that we can take almost anything and make it larger or smaller but this also showed us that you can do anything as long as you put your mind to it. We were able to take anything and figure out how we can enlarge it or shrink it using some basic math. So we did several math sheets in class like Billy bear, Congruence and Triangle Congruence, Ratios and Proportions, and including solving proportions. These were just some of the math sheets we did several more so we knew we would be able to do the scaling work. The worksheets we were given all related about one thing which was similarity. All similar shapes have proportional sides that use a scale factor to determine what the side length will be. Between two shapes we were able to tell the differences from the side and the length of each side of the shape. In order for us to solve for the missings sides we had to do cross multiplication. This relates to the project because we have similar shapes that use dilation because they are the same just different sizes. Once we finished all of the work sheets we came up with Benchmarks as a class and each one of these benchmarks has some of the assignment that needed to be finished.
Benchmark #1 was asking us are you working with anyone, what object will you be scaling, what is the scale factor you are going to be working with, how will you build your object and display it. After reading over bench mark number one I said: I am working on this individually. I am going to scale the United States and create it out of metal and put the American flag on the inside. I am going to make it the size of the two desk ruffly and I am going to work from their with what else might need to be be dune with it. I am going to scale it by looking at the distance across the united states and find the best size once shrunk down. I am going to be making this at my dad shop where we have a water cutter to cut sheet metals, at exhibition I will lay it flat or maybe have it stand and get white paper to put behind it to make the flag show.
Moving on to Benchmark #2 we were asked to Sketch what our object was going to be and we had to figure out the scale factor to our object. Where we turned it in and we're making sure all of are calculations were done correctly. The scale factor I chose was...
Benchmark #3 was the construction of our actual product my product was the united states with the American flag, it turned out really well I was really impressed this project me and my dad worked on this at his shop and we had to recreate the whole image we took a picture of the united states and we took another one and tried to layer it on the inside of the other one and we ran into the problem with one being smaller than the other one. So we took the eastern side of the U.S.A. and deleted it and re drew the hole side to be able to configure with the american flag. The american flag gave us the biggest challenge due to us having to recreate the Eastern side for where the flag was being input. When we were adding the stars we were able to just copy and paste rows, we have 45 stars on the flag and we actually have 13 stripes. If I was to remake it I would actually figure out a way to get 50 starts there is a few spots we could add them and I would help with some of the gaps.
While working on this project I wasn't alone I was with my dad previously stated. One this we really had to do was really had to take apart and put together are an online image with putting the American flag on the inside of the flag. We had to recreate the whole outer edge of where the flag is on the Eastern side of the United states. We also had to really stay organized with how we layered files and as well as when we had to take the measurements it was really important for me and the files we were making the image on organized on the online file. I would also have to say that I am really happy the project was a successful project and it was really awesome I would have never thought of making it or taking time and effort of it out of my day. Know that I made it I am possibly thinking about making it out of copper to give it this rustic look with possible leds to make it brighter. But one other thing I found amazing would have to be how the steel cut out had the blue plastic on the back where it made the steel cut out looked amazing.
While working on this project I had a really awesome time because we have never worked on something like this using scaling. I really think the purpose of us this was to show that we can take almost anything and make it larger or smaller but this also showed us that you can do anything as long as you put your mind to it. We were able to take anything and figure out how we can enlarge it or shrink it using some basic math. So we did several math sheets in class like Billy bear, Congruence and Triangle Congruence, Ratios and Proportions, and including solving proportions. These were just some of the math sheets we did several more so we knew we would be able to do the scaling work. The worksheets we were given all related about one thing which was similarity. All similar shapes have proportional sides that use a scale factor to determine what the side length will be. Between two shapes we were able to tell the differences from the side and the length of each side of the shape. In order for us to solve for the missings sides we had to do cross multiplication. This relates to the project because we have similar shapes that use dilation because they are the same just different sizes. Once we finished all of the work sheets we came up with Benchmarks as a class and each one of these benchmarks has some of the assignment that needed to be finished.
Benchmark #1 was asking us are you working with anyone, what object will you be scaling, what is the scale factor you are going to be working with, how will you build your object and display it. After reading over bench mark number one I said: I am working on this individually. I am going to scale the United States and create it out of metal and put the American flag on the inside. I am going to make it the size of the two desk ruffly and I am going to work from their with what else might need to be be dune with it. I am going to scale it by looking at the distance across the united states and find the best size once shrunk down. I am going to be making this at my dad shop where we have a water cutter to cut sheet metals, at exhibition I will lay it flat or maybe have it stand and get white paper to put behind it to make the flag show.
Moving on to Benchmark #2 we were asked to Sketch what our object was going to be and we had to figure out the scale factor to our object. Where we turned it in and we're making sure all of are calculations were done correctly. The scale factor I chose was...
Benchmark #3 was the construction of our actual product my product was the united states with the American flag, it turned out really well I was really impressed this project me and my dad worked on this at his shop and we had to recreate the whole image we took a picture of the united states and we took another one and tried to layer it on the inside of the other one and we ran into the problem with one being smaller than the other one. So we took the eastern side of the U.S.A. and deleted it and re drew the hole side to be able to configure with the american flag. The american flag gave us the biggest challenge due to us having to recreate the Eastern side for where the flag was being input. When we were adding the stars we were able to just copy and paste rows, we have 45 stars on the flag and we actually have 13 stripes. If I was to remake it I would actually figure out a way to get 50 starts there is a few spots we could add them and I would help with some of the gaps.
While working on this project I wasn't alone I was with my dad previously stated. One this we really had to do was really had to take apart and put together are an online image with putting the American flag on the inside of the flag. We had to recreate the whole outer edge of where the flag is on the Eastern side of the United states. We also had to really stay organized with how we layered files and as well as when we had to take the measurements it was really important for me and the files we were making the image on organized on the online file. I would also have to say that I am really happy the project was a successful project and it was really awesome I would have never thought of making it or taking time and effort of it out of my day. Know that I made it I am possibly thinking about making it out of copper to give it this rustic look with possible leds to make it brighter. But one other thing I found amazing would have to be how the steel cut out had the blue plastic on the back where it made the steel cut out looked amazing.