Ok, Mom, here's a blog posting. Two weeks of silence means that nothing of true interest has happened in the last couple weeks. So today I had the day off because it is comments writing weekend. Due to the fact that we teachers will spend a good chunk of time writing about our students, we get a day off as compensation. As of this writing, I have finished 40 out of 62.
This morning I scheduled the surveyors to come out and do their measurements. The maps of our buildings location and the plans of which parts of the building belong to my neighbors upstairs, which area belongs to me and which areas are considered common areas, will officially be submitted to the city as part of our condo conversion application process.
So how does all this tie in with work? Yesterday, I taught the students in Geometry that the distance formula for finding how far away two points are from each other is simply a glorified version of the Pythagorean Theorem. The today, the surveyors come out and all these measurements are calculated with the distance formula. Of course, I had to take pictures so I can show my students that the Math they are learning does have real world application. Here are some of the pictures:
Dan the surveyor setting up the tripod to measure elevation and distances. All this is done to find the exact location of the building in relation to various USGS markers.
Up close and personal with Dan, the surveyor who is also a Geology major. We bonded.
Up close and personal with the machine which takes all the measurements and calculations and stores them until downloaded.
Dan's drawing of how they use a zero line and then measure azimuths off it to determine the direction and location of key points.
The "Disto" the handheld laser pointing, distance calculating machine
Also adding to today's flurry of activity was the arrival of the carpet cleaners. The downstairs tenant moved out a week ago and scheduled to have carpet cleaners do their thing this afternoon. So for a while there, the place was swarming with people. But all in the name of household improvement!
This morning I scheduled the surveyors to come out and do their measurements. The maps of our buildings location and the plans of which parts of the building belong to my neighbors upstairs, which area belongs to me and which areas are considered common areas, will officially be submitted to the city as part of our condo conversion application process.
So how does all this tie in with work? Yesterday, I taught the students in Geometry that the distance formula for finding how far away two points are from each other is simply a glorified version of the Pythagorean Theorem. The today, the surveyors come out and all these measurements are calculated with the distance formula. Of course, I had to take pictures so I can show my students that the Math they are learning does have real world application. Here are some of the pictures:
Also adding to today's flurry of activity was the arrival of the carpet cleaners. The downstairs tenant moved out a week ago and scheduled to have carpet cleaners do their thing this afternoon. So for a while there, the place was swarming with people. But all in the name of household improvement!