Polyhedra

Building Polyhedra

Students are delighted with the opportunity to spend a math class learning the technique of accurate paper cutting and gluing to create these beautiful models. For a description of the background and implementation of this project, download the following document; polyhedra.doc.

Frank truncated an icosahedron to create a soccer ball.	Mayan made a stellated octahedron but he made it look like two intersecting tetrahedron by using only two colors.	Sug created five intersecting tetrahedron.
Alex made a great dodecahedron. The five yellow triangular pieces form the pentagon that the 3-d pentagram rests on.	Emily made a stellated icosahedron using only blue card stock. She used 6 different shades of blue.	Gyu worked a long time to assemble this 120-faced great icosahedron.
Greg also made a stellated icosahedron. Notice that you can see the green pentagram that is made of isosceles triangles in the same plane.	Lara did an amazing job on this thirteenth stellation of an icosahedron.	Lily made an Icosidodecahedron.
Sarah made a great dodecahedron.	Josh did his own thing. This is a stellated icosahedron but he didn't use golden triangles in his construction. So, his creation is very dramatic.	This is called a truncated great icosahedron. Hye-Jung did a marvelous job.
Marina created a mobile out of intersecting tetrahedron.	Steven enjoyed himself and created the sixth stellation of the icosahedron (right) after he had made his great dodecahedron (left).

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Leslie Lewis

Mathematical Art, Web Design, Teaching Mathematics with Art

Building Polyhedra