In my very first week of blogging, August 2009, I did a post on Geometry. I think I had school on the brain as it was the first week of school. Three months after that I did another post, this time on angles. Thank goodness that I waited at least 1+ years until another math-inspired post, right? I'm beginning to wonder if I am going to have to start carrying a protractor in my front pocket! "D'oh!"
So what brings me back to math you ask? Well even if you didn't ask, I'll tell you. It's the fact that I had to help my 9 year-old on a Geometry report. TWENTY PAGE report. TYPED. WITH IMAGES. AND BOUND. Did I mention he's 9? And we do public school, not private. Watch out Japan + China, we're catching up to you in school. (*hopefully?)
This report consisted of picking shapes, defining them yourself, and along with drawing a picture or importing one from on-line, you had to write a sentence about it: A show don't tell sentence.
I have to say I am quite proud; I think it turned out pretty well. I had forgotten about what some of these shapes were made of.
Because I helped find the images on the computer .... (who knew that searching Google Images for simple things like "triangle" would bring up pictures of girls bikini bottoms and I'll let you use your imagination for other things it incorporated. Seriously? It's sad that our children don't search for it, it just comes to them when they are innocently looking for geometry pictures. hmphhhh) ... But anyways, I became quite inspired with some of the images I found that were artistic. Geometrical shapes are ALL around us, and unless you are aware and/or looking for them, you don't notice how much they are part of our lives.
ACUTE ANGLE
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INTERSECTING LINES
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PENTAGON
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| A Hoya vine bud, image here |
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| A soccer ball crocheted incorporating the African Flower Hexagon, with a pentagon pattern in-between, image here |
HEXAGON
OCTAGON
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| Wool Rug from Capel |
PARALLEL LINES
SPEAKING OF PARALLEL LINES, take the line of Phi (1.618)....
THE THEORY OF PHI IN BEAUTY:
FROM THE PHI LINE (1" - 1.618" )TO THE ACUTE GOLDEN TRIANGLE, TO THE OBTUSE GOLDEN TRIANGLE, TO THE GOLDEN PENTAGON, TO THE GOLDEN DECAGON, AND FINALLY TO THE GOLDEN DECAGON MATRIX)
This sounds crazy, but when you watch the video, it really is fascinating. A company called Marquardt Beauty Analysis in California has applied geometry to a facial mask in order to mathmatically determine what is considered the perfect face.
It starts with a Phi Line:
then you watch the line turn into the following shapes....
DNA chains fill in every aspect and shape inside the Golden Decagon Matrix...
To see a 2-D analysis, go to their website here.
But even if hardly anyone in the world can fit this ideal "mask of beauty", at least all of us share some perfect PHI symmetry in our bodies! Like our hands.....
And our teeth....
And if you wear braces, you are sportin' some PHI Perfection AND unlimited INTERSECTING LINES and RIGHT ANGLES!
