Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Shapes we'd made

We had decided to start the week with an outdoor game. Just like the previous groups, our game was with stations where each groups are to play. There were four stations. The game on one station was forming a particular form out of shapes given. Another was on being able to measure a triangle on the ground and I forgot what the egg my groupmates brought was for. I was with a groupmate, in one station. Ours was about using matchsticks to form different figures with a limited number of moves and time. Some groups had them all right and some did not. The game ended after all groups had finished all stations.
                On the second day, we had our debate and the film presentation. The debate topic proceeds on the argument that “The shortest distance you can go from point a to b is always a straight line”. I was on the cons. I argued that there are two types of geometry, the Eucledian and the non-Eucledian. The non-Eucledian has a curved shape thus, there would not be any straight line to connect point a to point b in the shortest possible measurement. I also pointed out that the universe is in fact not flat since space and time is curved caused by gravity of the heavenly bodies. The debate went well and our pros argued well that it was a very good and fair. We hadn’t won our audiences hearts with our argument but I think we had said enough to present our point and made them consider it.

                The presentation we made was a musical about a girl who was not into math since she had gotten a lot of “Fs” from her tests. She somehow wanted to impress a classmate she liked however she just cant. Her sister wanted her to appreciate math by taking her to a “Math wonderland”. People in that place sang and persuaded the girl to appreciate math especially geometry. Soon, the girl became interested in math and tried hard to be good at it. And one day she finally got the right answer and learned to love math. It ended with a song and a live performance. 

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