Category: Math

Mathematical Similarity Summary: Henry Toll

 

Figures are mathematical similar when they have the same angles lengths and location they also have to have congruent side lengths. This mean that they can have a scale factors which is a number if multiplied it will change it into the other figure and if that one is divided then it will turn into the other.

  • Any two rectangles are smiler?  False, rectangles will always equal angles all 90 degrees, but they could have not congruent angles and not have a scale factor. For example if there are two rectangles and one is 7 inches on the long side and the short side is 3 inches. The other figure as a long side of 4 inches and the short side is 3 inches, then there is no scale factor

 

  • Any two equalized triangles are similar? False, equalized triangles have the same angles, but like rectangles the length of the side are different so they could not always have a scale factor. For example if their is two equalized triangles and one has 3 sides and each are 4 inches long and the other equalized triangles as 3 sides and two of them are 3 inches and the last one is 5 inches then they cant be similar.

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Henry Toll

9/8/16

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Math Profile

In math, I have had a lot of hard times; but, also a lot of successes and triumphs. A big part of my successes in math took place at a school in San Francisco called Charles Armstrong School. There, I was able to overcome my dyslexia in many subjects, one of them being math. I overcame math by becoming interested in it and trying two times harder than I did before.

I like learning math because I like to use it when I am bored and because It is useful for many jobs in the world. So I can use Math to get those jobs and exceed at them. I dislike learning about math because it requires a lot of homework. I also do not always enjoy math because it is a class I don’t always get my best grades in – which my parents don’t like.

I consider myself a good math student because I like to learn it, and even though I am not the fastest in it, I try until I do my best. I try to get my math homework finished before  5 pm unless I am not able to because of, sports, music, and, family. I get stuck when I don’t completely understand my homework, or I don’t understand my concept. When this happens, I ask for help or I watch a video on how to do it.