Assignment 1 Presentation

 Here is the link to our presentation for assignment 1:

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Reflection:

I worked on the Sagitta project with Karishma and Tyler. It has led to some interesting findings like the Ishtar Gate built during the times of King Nebuchadnezzar II. We were also amazed by the advance knowledge the Babylonians had with circle geometry. This allowed them to build some of the greatest architectures in the ancient world. We also found that sagitta means arrow in Latin. This inspired us to do a bow and arrow question for our extension of our problem.

I enjoyed working with both Karishma and Tyler. We divided the presentation equally among the 3 of us. Karishma did the introduction including the Ishtar Gate example. I did the proving of the equations and Tyler did the extension with the bow and arrow. And I do feel that our presentation was a success in terms of introducing the class to this interesting topic and getting them engaged.

This also leads to my thought of introducing this kind of group projects/presentations in our high school Math classrooms. It would be interesting for students to work on projects that talk about the history of any topic they learn in school. With such diverse cultures we have here in Canada, students can even research on the history of a certain math topic in their own cultures. This would give them different perspectives of the topics and they will appreciate the contributions made by different cultures to Mathematics (exactly what we are doing in this course).