Post 6, September 22, 2010.

• Explain what math you used during your Lagunazo trip.

In the Lagunazo trip there were several ways in which I used math. Most of them were during the Amazing Race. There were several posts which were about math. For example, there was one post that had riddles and one riddle was that we had to add and subtract some numbers and convert them into Roman numerals and the result gave us a word, and the word was MIX; M=1000, I=1, and X=10. Another way that I used math was using a compass. On the second day, the guides gave us the coordinates of the posts, for example 240 degrees, and we had to guide ourselves with the compass. While doing the Race, one group started 10 or 15 minutes before the other, so when we had to start first, we had to hurry up, so that the other group did not catch up with us; we had to calculate the time that the other team started and where we were to avoid them catching up with us.

Geometry Project

I began the project by researching what are latitude and longitude and what are the average monthly temperatures in cities in the USA. I found the definitions in the dictionary, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/latitude and http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/longitude.

After looking for the definitions I looked for a web site that had information about the average monthly temperatures for all or some cities in the USA and found several web sites, http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0762183.html, http://countrystudies.us/united-states/weather/, and a site for some southern cities, http://www.travelsouthusa.com/weather/.

Then I looked for the latitude and longitude of the cities and found this web site, http://www.bcca.org/misc/qiblih/latlong_us.html.

Post 4, September 3, 2010.

My opinion about the project for this quarter is that apart from being just about math, we can apply what we learn, for example, in Technology Class about creating web pages and Geography looking for the places in a map and finding their latitude and longitude. Though it doesn't have to do with Geometry, it is still very informative and educational. I also think that it is very long and it requires several steps to complete, but these are not that hard. I think that the hardest part will be crating the web page because finding the latitude and longitude of a place is quite simple and the making scatter plots, too.