The mathematical transformations exhibition project is where you chose facts and determined if it is linear or non-linear. We chose facts and compared them together to find a linear and non-linear relationship. The facts you chose didn't have to relate to your exhibition project but most people chose facts relevant to theirs. We then had to create an art piece to represent our relationship. After we had finished our art piece, we displayed it at exhibition alongside our houses. My non-linear relationship was the cost of building 100 km of bullet train track per year. My linear relationship was the number of trains in japan compared to the year. I chose my non-linear relationship because I have always wondered how much money it cost to build a bullet train and the only estimate I could find was the California bullet train, which price is always changing and going up and down. I chose my linear relationship because I know Japan has an extremely on time train system, and I was wondering how many trains it takes to have that accuracy. How I got my data was somewhat complicated because it is not really public data and most of the websites are in Japanese. I eventually got to an English website that had data from 2006 to 2012. I then took this data and put it together into an In-Out table.
My linear relationship is approximately linear because the demand for trains is mostly rising in a linear fashion, since more and more people are riding trains in Japan each day.
My non-linear relationship is not linear because currency inflation and material price rises make it difficult for a country to keep a steady price.
My first idea of my creative piece was to take 4 actual toy trains and cut them into pieces to make the data. I couldn't find cheap enough toy trains to create this so I had to use my plan B. I got a poster board and glued cut out paper trains to the board to represent the data.
Then I put my graph on the board. What went well in this project was I think my art piece was a success. During the creation I used the wrong type of glue so it was super sticky and there were fingerprints everywhere from the glue. If I were to do something different I would use a regular glue to prevent fingerprints from sticking and having to cover it up.