Monday, February 8, 2010

Pascal's Triangle

The triangle starts with the number one on top, and this row is considered the zero row. Every row after the "zero" row is labeled numerically starting with one, then two, ect. The process of creating the rows is adding the adjacent two numbers in the row above, and this sum is placed in the row under the two number that were added, in the spot between them.
-Aaron
The Pascals Triangle was invented by Blaise Pascal in 1653. It is a geometric configuration of binomial coefficients in a triangular pattern.
-Aaron

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist. He was one of the most influential scientist of his time.
-Jacob Richardson

Albert Einstein

This is Albert Einstein. He was one of the smartest men in the world
-Jacob Richardson

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

This is Einstein in his latter years. He looks very old and tired. This is probably because he worked his entire life developing theories, including one of the most famous theories of all time E=mc^2! In this picture he is mentally exhausted.
-Callie
Einstein was one of the greatest scientists of all time. He had many theories that changed science forever. He proved that light actually has mass.
-Callie
This is Pascal's Triangle. This triangle is used a lot in algebra and probability/combinatorics. It was invented by Blaise Pascal in the seventeenth century. Thank you, Mr. Pascal, for making our lives more complicated! : )
-Callie
This is Pascal's Triangle. We don't use it much right now in our class, but i'm sure it's quite useful to other people. The ends of the rows are one, and the others are the sum of the nearest two numbers in the row.

-Callie

This a is slightly younger Einstein.
-Aaron
That is Albert Einstein. He was a theoretical physicist and was a briliant scientist. His most famous work was the his theory of relativity: E=MC^2.
-Aaron

Monday, February 1, 2010

Pascals triangle

This triangle is very annoying but at the same time useful when it comes to math.
-Jacob Richardson

Pascals Triangle

this is pascals triangle
-Jacob richardson

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Tessalation

This picture contains angels and demons. It resymbols to me that even good things/people and a thread of evil in them.

Tessalation

This picture is a tessalation. It has many symetrical things about it.
-Jacob Richardson

Friday, January 22, 2010


This is the tesselation of the angles and demons. If you look closely you can see that the angles are reflected by the tips of their wings and also their feet, and then in the shadows you see the demons. Very creepy!
-callie
This picture is a tesselation. It is a picture of angels and demons. In my opinion, the picture is quite interesting. It really tricks the mind because of the combination of good and evil. There are many transformations in this picture such as reflections and rotations.

-Callie

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

It is symetrical because the images are all exactly congruent to eachother, are are placed in 90 degree angles, so they have the same parts touching at each similar place in each group of angels.
The butterflies had SIX legs Mrs. Petit.
-Aaron
The picture is abunch of angels that are in groups of four that are rotated on their wing tips.
-Aaron
This picture resymbols rotations and reflections
-Jacob Richardson
This picture is very interesting it represents symitry of items
-Jacob Richardson

Thursday, January 14, 2010

This picture has many lines of symmetry. It looks like it could be a picture at the end of a kaleidoscope. No matter which way you turn it, it always looks the same.
-Callie
This is a pretty picture. There are reflections and rotations in it. If you were to print this picture out and cut it all the way in half through any point, both sides would be exactly the same!
- Callie
That looks like a Large Blue, or Phengarious Arion, which lives in Europe and some parts of Asia. They seem to be in a kaleidoscope-like viewing chamber.
-Aaron
www.wikipedia.com/large_blue_butterfly
Cool picture. They DO have 6 legs though....
It relates to math because it is symetrical.
- Aaron

Thursday, January 7, 2010



Fractals are amazing objects of symetry. They are a grand picture made up of several smaller objects that are symmetrical.

-Jacob Richardson

picture from www.my.opera.com

Leibinz started the mathematics of fractals in the 17th century, but thought that only a straight line would work.
In 1872 Karl Weierstrass gave a example of a function whose graph had a non-intuitive property of being continuous at all points but not differentiable at any point.
www.wikipedia.org/fractals
-Aaron

Fractal

Fractals are images that are very unique. They are like repeated shapes that are put together to make a big shape, but the shapes are are different sizes.
-Jacob Richardson
Fractals are considered to be infinitely complex because they appear similar at all levels of magnification. Some things in nature that are like fractals include clouds, mountain ranges, lightning bolts, coastlines, snow flakes, and some vegetables.
www.wikipedia.org/fractal
-Aaron
A fractal is too irregular to be easily described in traditional Euclidean geometric language.
www.wikipedia.org/fractals
-Callie
A fractal is a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced size copy of the whole. This property is called self-similarity.
www.wikipedia.org/fractal
-Callie