Course:Harris, Fall 07: Diary Week 2
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(short week)
Wed:
- collected Polygon Exercises
- class finished up last week's Tessellations Exploration (~20 mintues), turned it in
- took first look at Kali (~20 minutes), considering what different types of symmetry were being created
- started working on Symmetry of Stars Exploration, but didn't finish
Fri:
- spent most of the class (~30 min) delving into #3 of last week's Exercises:
- why triangle angle-sum is 180 (opposite interior angles)
- why quadrilateral angle-sum is 360 (two interior triangles)
- why one has to be careful with diagonals for non-convex quadrilaterals
- why, in a quadrilateral, opposite angles being congruent implies opposites are parallel
- need to get to opposite interior angles
- that means need to show adjacent angles add to 180
- how to get to that by using quadrilateral angle-sum is 360
- class finished up Symmetry of Stars Exploration
- just began to discuss Rotational and Reflectional Symmetries in Escher Exploration