My House

I have been building a house during my time in Drafting 11. I found this challenging because making a house takes a certain amount of creative thinking. Apart from the challenging bits, making this house was exciting and I enjoyed building it. 

✔️ I can develop a body of creative work overtime in an area I’m interested in or passionate about. 

✔️ I build on others’ ideas and add ideas of my own or combine other people’s ideas in new ways to create new things or solve straight forward problems. 

✔️ I can usually make my ideas work within the constraints of a given form 

Cabinet Reflection

I made this cabinet over many days using SketchUp. I found the app quick and easy to use once I knew what I was doing. Making the cabinet was a long process however it was kind of fun making your own cabinet. I would highly recommend SketchUp to new users as it is a great place to learn and have fun. 

I didn’t do well during my last dimensioning assignment but when you check my dimensions for my cabinet, they came back a lot better. I could say I grew in the communication sector because I was able to get measurements across the screen a lot better than how I did before. If I were to do this project again, I would ask for more help when I needed it. 

I Can Statements

✔ I can evaluate credibility of sources of information 

✔ I can experiment with different ways of doing things 

✔ I understand that there are different points-of-view, and I can disagree respectfully 

My Parabola

My Equation: 𝑦=4(𝑥+1) ²−2 

The parabola graphed in blue is the basic parabola while my parabola is the one in red. Altering the a, h or k in the graph will drastically change the parabola’s appearance. 
Modifying “a” made the parabola appear wider or thinner. In other words, when a > 1, the graph compresses. When 0 < a < 1, the graph stretches. You can even determine whether the graph opens upwards or downwards based on this number.  
“h” represents a horizontal shift of how much the graph moves left or right from x = 0. While “k” represents a vertical shift of how much the graph moves up or down from y = 0. 
A as 4 on my parabola made my parabola thinner, k changed the vertex of my parabola by 1 to the left and h altered the parabola by moving the vertex 2 down. 

Self Reflection

I represented the same mathematical idea in 3 different formats. The way in which I presented this idea in 3 different ways was through an equation which is y= 4(x+1)2  -2, then in words explaining how the graph can get wider and narrower based on the value of “a” in the model equation represented by y=a(h-x)2+k, or how the graph can be moved right or left based on the value of “h” in the model equation or how the parabola vertex is changed by the value of “k”; and the third way is by the graph as above with the basic one in blue, and a second one based on my equation has changed to the one in red. 

When explaining my parabola in words I used mathematical terms like vertex shift on the y-axis, vertical and horizontal shifts on the x-axis to represent my understanding of a, h and k in an equation. 

I used formatting to help get my point across. I did this by making my parabola red vs the standard which is blue.