Problem Solving Method:
- Understand the Problem: A student at Lane Tech thinks that cornrows look cool and are amazing and they go to a hair salon but there are multiple designs for her to choose from. In order to help her figure out what she wants. We have to show her different designs as well as the grids to show her what’s gonna happen to her head. Hence, from the preceding scenario I can dissect that my mission in this project will be to use our culturally situated design tool programme to weave together said student’s hairstyling.
- Devise a Plan: Seeing as I had little to no experience dealing with African-American hair and how to put it into cornrows, and had only the knowledge I absorbed from the tutorials on the website, I decided to just choose a braid on the hairline and start from there.
- Carry Out the Plan: By taking this random approach I found myself regretting some of my choices with each braid, and unable to change them due to the software.
- Look Back: If I had the opportunity to redo this project I would formulate exact instructions for myself to carry out instead of just winging it the way that I did.
Reflection
The purpose of this project was tying together math with the ancient African art of intricate hair braiding. From it I learned many geometric terms such as iteration, dilation, rotation, translation, vectors, starting point, starting angle, starting dilation, and starting reflection. Challenges I faced during the continuum of this project include, but are certainly not limited to, finding a creative stimulus to motivate me to do the assignment, and also collaborating with the group as I was absent during one of our days working. If given the opportunity to complete this project over again I would have liked to all do the same hair design so as we could do a more collaborative presentation.