What did you find difficult about this unit? How can you make a plan to improve your understanding of this topic? This unit was difficult because I had to make a lot of real life connections with the lines which was tough for me because I never really thought about how perpendicular and parallel lines would affect my everyday life.

 

How are parallel and/or perpendicular lines used in architecture, art, mapping, sports, ect.? They are used in architecture because the walls in buildings need to be perpendicular to the floors in the building or else the buildings support would not be strong and the building may collapse. In sports parallel lines are used so that the amount of space on each teams side is fair because if one team has a small area to defend it it harder for the other team to attack and vice versa.

 

When do we see parallel or perpendicular lines in nature? Why? In a beehive there some segment of the hexagons that do not ever make contact with other segments in hexagons even if their imaginary line goes on forever. Snail shells have lines going across them that are all parallel.