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Toni Beardon has chosen this article introducing a rich area for practical exploration and discovery in 3D geometry
In a recent workshop, students made these solids. Can you think of reasons why I might have grouped the solids in the way I have before taking the pictures?
How can we as teachers begin to introduce 3D ideas to young children? Where do they start? How can we lay the foundations for a later enthusiasm for working in three dimensions?
In this article, we look at solids constructed using symmetries of their faces.
60 pieces and a challenge. What can you make and how many of the pieces can you use creating skeleton polyhedra?
A very mathematical light - what can you see?
Is it possible to remove ten unit cubes from a 3 by 3 by 3 cube made from 27 unit cubes so that the surface area of the remaining solid is the same as the surface area of the original 3 by 3 by 3. . . .
Each of these solids is made up with 3 squares and a triangle around each vertex. Each has a total of 18 square faces and 8 faces that are equilateral triangles. How many faces, edges and vertices. . . .
It is known that the area of the largest equilateral triangular section of a cube is 140sq cm. What is the side length of the cube? The distances between the centres of two adjacent faces of. . . .
These models have appeared around the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Perhaps you would like to try to make some similar models of your own.