Exit Slip September 23, 2021 (Updated)

 

This was a wonderfully engaging lesson. There was something magical about working with your own hands to make something that is seemingly simple but at the same time so intricate and beautifully symmetrical such is the case with rope making. My first rope was a very simple twisted rope and after I mastered that I wanted to try something a little more advanced. At first I started with a simple all one color 7 layer braid that took a few tries to get going and to understand how the braiding actually worked. It was not difficult but you have to make sure to keep track of the procedure of it is very easy to get lost and braid the wrong strand in the wrong order. Once I was confident, I endeavored to create something a little more interesting. I used several colors to create the seven layer braid and that’s when the fun really began for me. I started to notice a pattern emerge in the raid as a braided more and more of the rope. It really made me think of how I can create new shapes and patterns simply by using the strands of ribbon. The structure of something so simple created such detailed and beautiful patterns. I really enjoyed the exercise and when used a classroom setting can really keep students engaged in a math lesson.