Introduction and Overview
For this project, we have decided to measure a soccer ball. The reason is that we knew we could take apart and use many methods to find the volume.
In order to start measuring, we started by finding the area of the hexagons and pentagons by using trig and using the area formula. Then we used all of our measurements to turn our hexagons and pentagons into pyramids and found the volume and multiplied that by the number of pentagons and hexagons to find our total volume of the soccer ball. |
Mathematical Process
We had to find the volume of our iteam and we had to use trig functions, and find the area of it too. We icorporated trig functions by finding the area of the pentagons and hexagons (to find the area of polygons you need to use trig.) Then we converted pur hexagons and pentagons into pyramids. We then plugged in our numbers into our equations and formulas to get our volume.
Reflection
A challenge that our group faced when working on this project was that we had a hard time understanding what to do for the project. This is because we wanted something simple but that would challenge us. After a long debate on what to do we came to the conclusion that the soccer ball would be a good choice because mathematical wise we could take it apart into shapes, we were used to working with and know how to work with. A habit we learned how to use "was take apart and put back together". This is because we tried to tackle the soccer ball as a whole shape, but then we realized that if we broke it down into just the pentagons and hexagons would have an easier time finding all of our measurements. Something my group and I would do differently is that we would come up with a strategy to take apart our item and how to solve our equations and formulas.