Do Bees Build It Best? Portfoilo

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Do Bees Build it Best? Portfolio Why do honeycombs look the way they do? A honeycomb is in the shape of a hexagon. Bees use them to store honey. A hexagon had a big surface area. Bees need that to store as much honey as they can in one hexagon. None of the surface area is wasted, no space can be wasted. A hexagon can also tessellate. Bees can repeat a hexagon millions of time and never have any open spaces or gaps in their honeycomb. The volume of a hexagon, or how much honey one can hold is pretty big. The biggest volume and surface area you can have for a shape is a circle. It would be a good shape to use for a honeycomb, but bees can’t use a circle. They can’t use it because a circle can’t tessellate. If it can’t tessellate then there will be open spaces and bees need all the space they can get to store honey. Bees do build it best. Three activities that were important in this unit are surface area, volume, and trig. The first piece of work I picked for this unit was for surface area. I choose this because it helped me understand how to find surface area and how to find it with different sided figures. It helped me with the formula also. The formula for surface area is base times height plus perimeter times height. My second piece of work I choose for this unit was trig. I picked it because It helped me understand how to get it and what to do. It was a little challenging for me at first but then I caught on. The formula for trig. is a squared plus b squared equals c squared. My third piece of work I picked for this unit is volume. I picked this one because when I was doing this work I easily did it and understood completely. The formula for volume is base times height. My understanding of geometry has grown during this unit. At the beginning of the unit I didn’t really know what we were talking about. Then is started to make more sence as

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