Thursday, February 18, 2010

Symmetrical Stuff

For maths this term were looking at reflection, rotation, and translation so were looking at symmetrical  objects. We had three cameras and we were sent off in pairs. Zayleah and Alex was a pair, Briana and Chilay were together, and Abbey and Natasha were together in a pair.

With the cameras we got loads of photos of things that are symmetrical.

Abbey and Natasha's best photo was the pipe slide.  The pipe slide has a line of symmetry right down the middle.









Chilay and Birana's found a tyre.  A tyre has an infinite number of lines of symmetry.  Infinite means that they can't be counted,  finite means they can be counted.





 

Zayleah and Alex's best photo was a cricket stand which was yellow.  It's line of symmetry goes right down the middle stump.

There are some more photos below.  See if you can find the lines of symmetry on them.















By Natasha and Chilay

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This sounds like very interesting stuff to learn about. Great photos as well.
Michelle (Ryan's mum)

Jules said...

You took some awesome photos ... it teaches us about symmetry too!! Looking forward to reading about all the other cool stuff you'll be doing this term.
Julie Fern