Intro to Binary

With my ten fingers, I can count to an infinite amount because I can reuse them.

Link to Binary WS

My birthday Binary: October 18th - 01010/10010

Binary numbers are fundamental to computer science because they are what make a computer. Whether its a phone, laptop or calculator, computers all have switches that are coded with binary numbers. Without them, you would't be able to have your computer process any information and understand it. They are essential to computing and without it, there would not be any computers or Morse code.

Depicted Message: "Help im trapped"

Cornrow Curves

Cornrows are a type of hair braid. They look like rows of corn. They do have a history, and it involves ancient Africans from around 500 B.C, around the time the Roman empire began. It shows the close attention that Africans have always paid to hair. Religion, kinship, status, age, ethnicity, and other attributes of identity can all be expressed in their hairstyle. Math is quite common in African culture with all their patterns, especially in hair. Those who worked in the plantation were required to keep a neat image for themselves. So, they would use cornrows as a way to keep a good appearance. It was also a way for blacks to unite by making their hair similar. During the civil rights era, cornrows were seen as survivors of the African tradition. During the 1970's, as Hip Hop became popular, cornrows worked hand and hand with it and was also popular. 

• Hip Hop Hair
• During the 1990s, several well-known celebrities, like Allen Iverson, Ludacris, and Lil' Bow Wow, were known for wearing cornrows.
• The complex geometric shapes that donned cornrow wearers, went on to further prove that math was just as important to the African heritage as was Black hair itself.

Design Tool Tutorial:

• Iteration
• Adding plaits to the original plait.
• Dilation
• Increasing or decreasing the size of the plaits.
• Question: Let's say the original plait is 1" wide, and let's make this first iteration 50% of the original size. How wide is the first iteration plait?
• Answer: The plait will be 0.5" wide.
• Translation
• Increasing or decreasing the distance between the plaits.
• Question: Let's say that the original plait is 1" wide, and let's make this first iteration translate 75% of the width of the original plait. How far away will the first iteration plait be from the original plait?
• Answer: The first iteration plait will be 0.75" away from the original.
• Rotation
• Changing the degree of the angle of which the new plait is being oriented.
• Question: Let's say we rotate the plaits 15 degrees in each iteration. The original plait is not rotated at all, so we will call that 0 degrees. The first iteration is rotated 15 degrees, and the second 30 degrees. How many degrees will the third plait be rotated?
• Answer: The third plait will be rotated 45 degrees.
• Reflection
• Making a copy that is a mirror image of the original.

1. Understand - I understood the tutorial
2. Plan - I planned out which hair design I'll do
3. Test - I tested out how the program worked
4. Reflect -  I reflected on the image I tried to copy and compared to see any errors

The mathematical concepts used involved some concepts in geometry such as reflections on the x and y axis as well as dilation, rotations and translations. I used simple addition and subtraction to properly adjust the patterns.

Handshakes and Fenceposts

What are the four steps of the problem solving process that we used in the previous lesson?

The four steps of problem solving that we used in the previous lesson were to understand, plan, test and reflect.
#1) If there are 20 people in the room, you will shake 19 of them. If there are N number of people, the number of hands you will shake is (n-1).
#2) If the side of the fence is 12 yards long, there will be 13 fence posts. Where the fence is N yards long, the number of fence posts needed will be (n+1)
As I worked with my group, my strategies charged by incorporating more ideas of how to manipulate apparent patterns. I used more practical and logical problem steps to solve solutions.
Yes, a computer can use my solution. It is definite and can be used in a calculator.

Answer- (n-1)n/2

Presentation to Problem Solving Process

The Four Steps of Problem Solving

I don't necessarily enjoy solving problems. They aren't beneficial to me. Unless I'm helping myself by doing so, I do not like enjoying problems. If you don;t need to fix them, why stress about it. Other problems that are being solved can be unnecessary and a waste of time because you are not benefiting from it. It may sound selfish but that is how I feel about solving problems. Problems should only be solved if they are affecting you in any way.
I think it will take about 0 breaks to break the bar into 12 equal pieces. The bar already contains 12 equal pieces so there is no need to break them. If the question was more specific, I would have said 11 breaks.
The solution I chose to figure this out was to act it out.
The answer to how many when given "n' number is (n-1). The last piece doesn't need to be broken because it's already alone when you get to it.

This problem is important for a carpenter because they need to know how to make their constructions symmetrical and equal. A chef to know how to evenly divide their portions, and a teacher to understand how to pass the concept on to their students. This  kind of problem is the same to one you'd solve in real life because it reflects the same thought process and problem solving strategies you'll use to solve a problem in real time.

Intro to Problem Solving

Whenever you're on a social network, you can be identified without even having your email or username even being shared. This shows that when you're on the internet, you can tracked down no matter what. While the internet may seem safe and secure, all the information you give remains whether you know it or not.
Communications and Data Methods Chart:
The data available is personal thoughts and information. The people who have access to this data are those who have the link. However, I'm pretty sure that the link can be found by other means and unknown people can view my work. Regrets that I have are that I shouldn't be putting sensitive data on the internet as it can always be traced and seen.
Data Reflection:
Google collects an endless amount of data on you all the time. They can do what they want with it and not a lot of people even realize this or what can really be done with all this data. This isn't safe and something needs to be done about this. The internet is an ever-changing world where data is constantly being shared. For sites to collect so much data on individuals is outrageous and people should be worried. Pictures, videos, documents and much more is in control of Google and many other sites that internet users use for entertainment, social media or web surfing. Smart TVs are also in issue as well. They are just like the internet, but just smaller and more related to television, although this may not always be the case.
Transit Data: Link to Transit Data

Presentation: Link to Community Problem Presentation