Intro: For this project we had to design a surveying project. We had to use trigonometry to obtain an unknown measurement. For this open-ended project, my partner Talia Towe and I had to decide on what we wanted to measure, and how to measure it. We could not do two things in this project. Our unknown measurement could not be directly looked up online. The second is that our project had to have the benchmarks.
Process: The process we used was that we first got the side measurements and the angles. We used a protractor, a string, and a measuring tool. To solve the problem we used common sense to determine our 2 unknown side lengths and our 1 unknown angle.
Reflection: I feel like we were able to get nice images for our slideshow, and were able to figure out easily the answer (once we got the measurements). The only issue we had was when we lost our known side length measurement. We were behind a bit, but the only real issue was time. Neither one of us could have internet access/ technology access so it was late a couple of days. This made us anxious, made us feel behind, and we became unsure if we were going to finish on time. The two Habits of a Mathematician I feel that we used was to stay organized, and describe and articulate. We had to stay organized by keeping track of measurements, and angles (although we lost our measurements, it was an important tool we realized we should have, which is why I worded it that way). We also had to describe and articulate by visualizing the triangle, about the answer we got. Articulating mainly came through in our attempts to solve the problem.