The+Playground+for+Little+Superheroes

= __**The Playground for Little Superheroes **__ = = __**(The Tesselation) **__ =

For my Tesselation I chose to do Rotation. I chose rotation for I thought that it would be more interesting than Translation or Reflection. I thought that Rotation would cause me to differentiate from just tracing the same thing over and over and over again across the paper, and plus I thought it'd be more fun. Rotation is when you draw your designs on the 2 sides of the little 2-inch square, and then cut out the peices and then you rotate around one of the corners of the little square and tape the piece to the side it rotates to. Then you take the other peice and rotate it over a different point and tape it to the side it rotates to. I then traced the little figure I had put together by rotating the peices around on my square and taping them down, and after I traced the figure once I had to rotate it around a point to fit it on my grid again. After I had finished rotating my figure around my paper it was time to decide on what to make of my figure, at first I saw a seahorse, the protruding spot on my fugure would've been the nose, and the triangular protrusion would've been the tail. But as I continued looking at it I saw maybe a dogs head, the protruding pointy peice being the snout and the triangular protrusion being the end of the neck. In the end I decided that it looked like a little superman with a cape, the triangular protrusion being the cape flowing in the wind, and the pointy peice being the superheroes leg. When I began to add in the superheroes features I began to see that the superhero was too wide to be a "normal" superhero which would be all muscly and thin. So, I made it out to be a chubby little kid running with a cape/blanket over his head. On his face I gave him brown hair and sunglasses, the sunglasses were more due to the fact that I'm not the best artist and I can't draw eyes, but I think the sunglasses fit him. Because I saw him as a superhero I gave him a superman shirt and blue pants to match. I colored my superhero in and I then had to come up with a name for my Tesselation, my math teacher talked to us about the title in class. She said that it didn't have to be super creative but it needed to fit our Tesselation. So, I've named mine "The Playground for Little Superheroes" as to represent all the little kids running around pretending to be superheroes. I found that Rotation seemed to have more to do with math than the other choices (in my opinion) because with the others you just slid the figure next to the last and tracing it over and over again, or reflected it against itself over and over again. But in Rotation you have to rotate your figure around a point to fit it to the grid and the last figure you traced, and when you make the figure you have to roate the peices to get them to fit to the figure. I also found this project to actually be fun, because I liked the tracing and coloring part of the project, I had fun to say the least. In conclusion, I chose Rotation for my Tesselation for I wanted a challenge and I thought it would be more interesting. I found that, in my opinion, Rotation was more mathematical than the other 2 choices. My Tesselation ended up being a little kid running around, having fun being as young as he is with a pretend cape flowing in the wind behind him. "The Playground for Little Superheroes" was the title i chose for my Tesselation, because I felt it represented the little kids rotating, the rotating figures symbolizing the kids running around, around their points and just having fun.