Objective:
To use different strategies like the math/ art learning project in my
math class as this will help to enforce their creativity and enjoy learning
math.
Reflective:
I had a wonderful time working together with my team
to construct the hyperboloid with the skewers. From the very first day, we
started sharing our ideas on Facebook and we came across this website http://georgehart.com/skewers/skewer-hyperboloid.html
which was very helpful. Since we were able to find all the instructions and saw
how exciting and easy it was for the kids to make, we decided to make two
hyperboloids, one with twelve skewers (with 5 rows of rubber bands) and one
with 16 skewers (with 4 rows of rubber bands). It was very tricky in the beginning
but after understanding the pattern, it was quick and easy. We had to be
careful as the skewers had sharp points and one of us poke their finger too.
While making it, we were wondering how many rows of
rubber bands we would add as the more rows, the more curvature we have. I also
observed that the longer the skewer, the greater the angle and more crossing in
the hyperboloid.
Since I was working on the extension part, I decided
to make an elliptic hyperboloid. It took me some time to make it as the bigger
the circle is, the greater the number of holes I had to make in the circle.
Here I had 48 holes therefore I used 24 strings.
Both hyperboloids were very interesting to make and
cheap too. It would be nice if I can try it with the students of grade 7-8. The
Math/ art learning projects will enforce the learners’ creativity and thus the
students can enjoy their math class.
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