During the beginning portion of second semester we were learning about dilation. To practice dilating, as a class, we had to enlarge an art piece. Our math teacher split the art piece into 30 squares and assigned each square to different students. I was given the second square in the second row. Step one was to recreate my given art square on a 4x4 inch box showing all my measurements and calculations. Step two was to trace my final image on a 4x4 inch square of watercolor paper. And the final step was to paint it. The most difficult part of this, besides enlarging the image onto another piece of paper showing calculations, was matching the colors to the actual image and to the other squares that are around mine.
After completing this project I was able to better understand dilation. I was learning a new piece of material so of course I was struggling at first. I had to figure out what the scale factor was and needed to show my work on how I found it. I didn't really understand the equation and after practicing with it I was able to better understand how to find scale factors. It was very difficult to show my work because their were many calculations I needed to make to correctly resize the image. on top of that we had to match the colors to the neighboring squares. Communication was key during this project to make sure the final product met the criteria. This mini-project really pushed me to communicate with my classmates to make sure our squares matched up when it came to the image and the color schemes. In the end I really enjoyed creating this.