3D design is hard to do.
That is one thing I learned from this project.Â
In this project we had to design and create a thing of our interest with the goal of having either maximum volume or maximum surface area. We were supposed to share a theme with our partner, so my partner made a snowboard, and I made a snowboard park. We had to calculate the surface area and volume of every single shape in our design. For this reason some of the shapes are floating because I couldn’t calculate them when they were in the ground. We made a model using Tinkercad and made a presentation to show the class our model and some math. This was my presentation.
As per all scimatics posts we have to talk about our three competencies.
Core competencies are three criteria which you are marked on. Ill show an example of how I showed that competency in this project.
Applying and innovating: Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through personal or collaborative approaches.
I helped my partner in this project on catching up when he was sick, and he helped me when my iPad broke, and I was waiting for my new iPad to deliver. We worked well together and taught each other a lot.
Reasoning and Analyzing: Model mathematics in contextualized experiences
I created a fairly realistic display while keeping the math doable. The math was really time consuming and I did show some skills by doing ten different shapes and two irregular shapes, being the park sign and the beige cylinder cone thing.Â
Communicating and Representing: Explain and justify mathematical ideas and decisions
My math in the presentation was explained by my talking, but wasn’t thoroughly explained by the presi itself. Since you can’t hear what I say in the presi ill summarize. I explained how surface area is usually smaller than volume, so despite my efforts to make more surface area, I couldn’t make it happen.
My driving question was how can I design a snowboard terrain park for maximum surface area. In the end after doing all the math I ended up with nearly double the volume compared to surface area.Â
Thanks for reading
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