Polyhedra

There are 45 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Polyhedra
Face Painting
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Face painting

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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You want to make each of the 5 Platonic solids and colour the faces so that, in every case, no two faces which meet along an edge have the same colour.
A Mean Tetrahedron
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A mean tetrahedron

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you number the vertices, edges and faces of a tetrahedron so that the number on each edge is the mean of the numbers on the adjacent vertices and the mean of the numbers on the adjacent faces?
A Chain of Eight Polyhedra
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A chain of eight polyhedra

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you arrange the shapes in a chain so that each one shares a face (or faces) that are the same shape as the one that follows it?
Tetrahedra Tester
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Tetrahedra tester

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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An irregular tetrahedron is composed of four different triangles. Can such a tetrahedron be constructed where the side lengths are 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 units of length?
Redblue
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Redblue

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Investigate the number of paths you can take from one vertex to another in these 3D shapes. Is it possible to take an odd number and an even number of paths to the same vertex?
Thinking 3D
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Thinking 3d

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?