Category Archives: Inquiry

Module One Post Two (cutting down angles as a goalie)

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This website and video will be helpful in improving shooting angles and understanding them. As well as the goalie understanding the angles and helping to cover more of the net, and save the shots. This will help me for my project so i can write about how the goalie has many plays and moves that involve math. Also including the shooter who is taking the shots. They also have many angles that if you understand would help better with scoring.

Cut Down the Angles | Girls’ Lacrosse Drills & Tips … – PlaySportsTV

http://www.playsportstv.com/girls-lacrosse/cut-down-the-angles

Module One Post One (Different Angles in Perspective Drawing)

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The first website I found is titled Perspective Drawing. It talks about the different angles when you are drawing something in perspective, like when you are drawing, it uses geometry. Every time you are drawing in perspective, you need a vanishing point and the plane of drawing. You need these factors because it adds realism.

The website gives pictures backing up what it is saying, so you can understand the topic further. It also gives reference to actual paintings using perspective if you want to see an example.

http://mathforum.org/sum95/math_and/perspective/perspect.html

Modules One Post One (Geometry in Lacrosse)

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This website is by Hannah Koehler on angles, parallel lines and geometry in Field Lacrosse. It shows how parallel lines appear in lacrosse, and how they are important par of the rules while playing. It also shows the angles used to shoot the ball into the net. As well as the shapes and sizes of the net, ball and stick.

This website will help me with my project because it showed me that there is more than just the shooting angles that help with the mathematics of lacrosse. And that lacrosse has math in every play and move you make, including all the rules.

https://prezi.com/qju6gdeofnam/geometry-in-lacrosse/

 

 

 

Module One Post One (Math Behind The Movies: An Interview With Tony DeRose From Pixar)

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This website will help me with my project because it talks about how Tony DeRose from Pixar got into mathematics as a kid and how his 7th grade science teacher showed him how to use trigonometry to calculate how high the rockets went. He thought that it was magical and way better than equations on paper. He also talks about how he got to work with Pixar. I think it’s really important to know how someone thinks about movies before actually figuring out what are exactly the math behind movies.

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Module One Post One (Nigel Stanford)

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Nigel Stanford is a performing artist who focuses on the interaction between technology and music through his construction of music videos. Of particular interest, is his exploration with the visualisation of frequencies or pitch: cymatics.

On this site, Stanford breaks down how he made the below music video. For me, this is of interest because it is a great step by step visualisation of how to use different mediums to interpret sound. Ultimately, this is what I would like to explore further. I feel like Stanford’s experiments will be a great foundation to creating my own cymatic device.

How to complete your first posts.

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Hello Math 8 folks. 

Today you will be working on your 5 posts for your November 30th deadline. I have provided an example under Module One

Step 1: Add new post

Step 2: Under categories select: Grade 8, Module One, and your User Name

Step 3: Write your post: 

          a) Provide an overview of what the site/resource is good for. Make sure you                        extract important links, videos from the page.

          b) Explain why you think the page is useful to you and others.