Al-Jabr

“Gregory the Chameleon” by Blayklee V.

This is my project, titled “Gregory the Chamaeleon”. This project displays the Fibonacci sequence or “the perfect spiral”, which is commonly found in nature. I chose to do this project because in “Al-Jabr”, we talked about how math is more than just numbers and equations. Math can be seen in nature, in the life around us!

I made it a chameleon it’s also easy because the “perfect spiral” fits in really good with his tail and his vine this project is made to focus on showing math in art and nature.

Hayes H.

For my project, I made a picture out of plotting points and a “worksheet” that the audience can attempt to work through, if they want to. What mainly influenced my decision to pick this project was when we went over graphing and plotting points in class and when I was younger I remember doing something like that with connect the dots, or with fuse-beads. I used to really enjoy doing them.

The main thing i want people to take away from this is just to learn a little bit about how to plot points and maybe even have a little bit of fun doing it. Before doing the project I already knew a lot about plotting points and graphing but while making this I most definitely got better at plotting due to how many points I had to plot and because I had to make them more precise than before. I didn’t realize until after I finished my picture, that I had actually made graphic-art.

Emma C.

 My project is a puzzle with algebra problems on each side of the pieces. I came up with the 

idea because “Al-Jabr” means “the restoring of broken pieces”, and that’s what a puzzle is. I was going to do a regular shaped puzzle and put it together, with one picture but I thought it would represent the class better by having all the puzzle pieces be triangles that fit together to make multiple math problems and the answers. 

The idea of my project is that math can be pieced together like a puzzle to show the full 

picture. While making this project I learned about the problems I was working with. How I made my project was I had a poster board and I drew the shape of the triangles on it. I wrote math problems to align with the answer on each side.

Fletcher G.

Hello, my name is Fletcher Graham. I am in the Al-Jabr class. My project is a video talking about Daniel Tammet. The reason I chose this project was because I believe that this is a very cool story and more people should know it. In class, we watched a video on him and his life and achievements and read an article about him and read part of the book he wrote. My main idea is Daniel Tammet and I'll talk about it in my video. That smart british people are cool to learn about.

Tegan B.

“Paint by Numbers” by Kaylee M.

My project is a painting of paint by numbers in the shape of a christmas tree. I made this project because in one of the books that we were reading in class ("Mathematician's Lament" - Paul Lockhart) Lockhart was talking to a middle school art teacher. She said that the middle schoolers go into art and they learn what brush to use to do the exact technique. In high school they will get to do painting by numbers.The lady was saying that there are a lot of the kids' parents that want the kids to be in the art class because it looks good on their college application. The reason the paint by numbers looks good on the college application is because you have to see the math in the art, which is why I chose to do this project. 

The main concern that I am expressing is that I want people to see the art that is in math or the math that is in art! I learned that math is really in everything and it's everywhere.