2020-12-08T14:00:49-05:00 2014-04-03T15:11:58-04:00 2020-12-08T14:00:49-05:00 Acrobat PDFMaker 11 for Word uuid:6e0a45e4-d53b-4f5d-9cb9-05d03fb756a6 uuid:80cfd612-1653-4ba8-8d1c-4a58f5680ada xml 13.02.08: Appreciation for Fractals Math Alicia Oleksy geometry fractals rotation reflection translation Adobe PDF Library 11.0 geometry, fractals, rotation, reflection, translation http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/ xmpMM XMP Media Management Schema internal UUID based identifier for specific incarnation of a document InstanceID URI http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/ pdfaid PDF/A ID Schema internal Part of PDF/A standard part Integer internal Amendment of PDF/A standard amd Text internal Conformance level of PDF/A standard conformance Text Appreciation for Fractals Alicia Oleksy In this curriculum unit, students will be introduced to the world of fractals. Through various lessons, students will embark on a journey showing how fractals pertain to real life. Natural fractals are present in everyday life without most of us even knowing. Through a hands-on activity involving cauliflower, students can get an up close look at some of the most basic features of a fractal. Students will also be given the opportunity to examine many visual representations of real world fractals and explore how self-similarity is present in each one. These observations of real life fractals will also allow the students to engage in the mathematical ideas of patterns, symmetry, and iterations that are present in such well known fractals like the Koch Snowflake and Sierpinksi Triangle. These hands on demonstrations will help the students appreciate the presence of fractals in life and their connections to mathematics.