Written by William J.
I enjoyed the activity Geometry Town a lot. In the activity Geometry Town, you have to build a town with a certain color-shape code (A red building has to have at least one right angle and at least one set of parallel lines.), think of a theme for your town (Baseball, a book, etc.), think about what you need for your city (A restaurant, a town hall, etc.) and most important of all, you have to be creative on what buildings you build and work well with your partner.
This activity is important because it what you have learned about geometry and math vocabulary and shows your teacher that you what you remember and what you have to relearn. For example, when me and Stefanos(My partner) was making a park, we had to have a symmetrical design. This is important because if I hadn’t known what symmetrical meant and just drawn a random park, the Geometry Town would have shown Mr. Bruff that I needed to relearn what symmetrical means.
This activity is related to math because you have to have a certain shape or angle which is determined by the color. For example, a green building has to have an obtuse angle, and a blue building has to have no parallel or perpendicular sides. They can also be determined by what it is. For example, you have to build 4 streets that are parallel to each other and an avenue that intersects 2 streets but isn’t perpendicular to them.
My opinion about this activity is that it was awesome! I enjoyed building a city and thinking about what I wanted to build. I even hope to add more to my city. There are plenty of things me and Stefanos didn’t add, like an airport, a Mayor’s House, a HUB(Hidden Underground Base) and a few helipads. In my opinion, just because we’re done with the activity Geometry Town in school doesn’t mean I can’t do it for fun later.
Written by Stefanos K.
The Geo-Town project was very fun and interesting. It lets you think about all the different types of jobs you could have when you grow up. And what a coincidence that a few days later, a new Bowman spirit day event was introduced where you would dress up as what you want to be when you grow up. Maybe the 4th grade curriculum knew that would happen and decided to make us do the Geo-Town project near the same time as the Bowman spirit day career event because they relate to each other.
Some people decided to take inspiration from books that they like. For example, Ankit and Laith created The Mortal Town from the Mortal Instruments series. Me and William had streets named after characters from Beyonders and had book names from Summoner. Other kids took inspiration from sports and other things. So this Geo-Town project let us have fun and think about our favorite things while learning at the same time about geometry and math!
I think the Geo-Town project is important. I think this because the Geo-Town project makes you think about everything a town needs and what people need in real life. This helps you a lot later in life if you were to become a parent or of build a town/city/building. In the end, I thought the Geo-Town was very fun and I also learned a lot from it too.
Written by a 4th Grade Brufftopian
Today me and my class did a geometry town project it was took me about 3 days to finish, i have a hospital, pool, houses, pond and a gaming house. Aka ( white house ) we even have a coca cola factory. Copyright. Everything turned out good when i was done some people said they would live there.
When I was doing the Geo Town it was really important because it gave me a chance to make my own town including all of the requirements for it. it also was a good way for everyone to have fun while learning about shapes and geometry. One example was when I had to make a park, with a sand box that had a acute angle I also had to make a pool with only acute angles. The most important thing was when we had to go to the correct measurements. Because you had to make sure you have the right shape of every building & acute angles.
I really like the project because I was having fun and I was learning at the same time so it helped my learning and I wasn’t getting bored.I also had a chance to be creative and make my own things in my town. And it also helped me was and idea for my civilization project this year if we have time for it.