The North Hollywood High School Highly Gifted Magnet (HGM) Math Department web page was created by students to showcase many of the interesting projects that our math students do each year. After viewing the site, please take the time to send us your comments to Gail Grande--HGM math teacher.

The Curves project, in which students first contructed basic curves such as the lemniscate, nephroid, parabola, and limaÁon using a computer program known as the Geometer's Sketchpad, then went mad and created their own freakish curves, such as the Fungoid and Tuberoid.

The Islamic Tile project, an interdisciplinary activity formerly done by the Sophomore class and now done by the Freshmen. These students construct Islamic-style geometric patterns using only a compass and straightedge, then paint them on tiles, which are glazed, put in wooden frames, and sold as trivets to the students who made them as a fund-raising project.

The Polyhedral Cartography project - imagine Earth as a tetrahedron, or a dodecahedron, or a rhombicosidodecahedron, or a snub cube. Starting last year, the BC Calculus class as an enrichment activity projected a map of the earth onto their choice of regular or semiregular polyhedron.

The Stellated Icosahedra are not a new rock band, but the things one will find hanging from the ceiling of the math room. They were lovingly hand-crafted from plastic drinking straws by the Geometry class.

One of the most striking features of the campus are the murals, which are the winning entries in a modular arithmetic art contest held each year.

We have made various tesselations, some of which were entered in a tesselation contest.

Our origami division specializes in Origami polyhedra.

Another project by the BC Calculus class is the Slicing project, which is a physical representation of a type of solid whose volume can be found using calculus.

The Stock Project involves the Statistics class in a real-world stock tracking adventure. The students are responsible for gathering data and even earning profit.

We have a Polyhedra Page, which is not actually a project but an informational page so that the reader can better understand several of the projects.

The Quilt Project.


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