Polyhedra - Books

   
Designing and Building Tessellated Polyhedra
$29.95
Polyhedra allow geometric shapes in the plane to become solids in our three-dimensional world. Tessellations in which individual tiles are lifelike motifs are a fun combination of art and mathematics. Designing and Building Tessellated Polyhedra brings these two fascinating topics together a for hands-on learning experience rich in math content. Nets for 24 different polyhedra, including all of the Platonic and Archimedean solids, are presented both with and without tessellations applied to them. This allows polyhedra to be built with ready-made designs that can be colored if desired, or printed in beautiful color using the included CD. Another option is building undecorated polyhedra that have the names and key properties printed on them. Yet another possibility is to use templates to design new tessellations that can be applied to the polyhedra. The book also contains background on polyhedra and templates for tessellated cones, cylinders, and Mšbius strips. For classroom use, ten activities with worksheets, designed to address ten different specific Common Core State Standards for Mathematics are included as well.

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Table of contents
Classroom activity example
Polyhedron net example

By Robert Fathauer, 8-1/2" x 11", 111 pages, with CD, 2012.
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Polyhedra Activity Book
$9.95
This book contains two pages of background material about polyhedra, an activities example page, plus two dozen 8.5" x 11" pages of different polyhedra, including all eighteen Platonic and Archimedean Solids. There are six activities that may be performed for each page: 1) Identifying the number and different types of polygons in the polyhedron; 2) Counting the number of vertices, faces, and edges in the polyhedron; 3) Writing out the name of the polyhedron and learning to pronounce it; 4) Marking the different types of symmetry the polyhedron possesses; 5) Drawing the polyhedron by connecting dots; and 6) Coloring the polyhdedron. By Robert Fathauer. 8-1/2" x 11", 30 pages (2009).
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Twirl kusudamas 1
$19.95
A kusudama is a decorative multipiece ball of origami flowers. This book explains how to make and join twirl modules to form a variety of flower and polyhedra models. "Twirl Kusudamas 1" describes models based on the standard SSSS twirl module, where "S" stands for "spiral". Text is in both Polish and English. By Krystyna Burczyk. Includes 8 pages of full-color figures. 8-1/4" x 11-5/8", 56 pages (2008).
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Twirl kusudamas 2
$19.95
A kusudama is a decorative multipiece ball of origami flowers. This book explains how to make and join twirl modules to form a variety of kusudamas. "Twirl Kusudamas 2" describes models based on the SLSL and SFSF modules and their modifications, where "S", "L", and "F" stand for "spiral", "line", and "fold". Text is in both Polish and English. By Krystyna and Wojciech Burczyk. Includes 12 pages of full-color figures. 8-1/4" x 11-5/8", 64 pages (2009).
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Twirl kusudamas 3
$19.95
A kusudama is a decorative multipiece ball of origami flowers. This book explains how to make and join twirl modules to form a variety of kusudamas. "Twirl Kusudamas 3" describes models based on the SSLL and SSFF modules, where "S", and "F" stand for "spiral" and "fold". Text is in both Polish and English. By Krystyna and Wojciech Burczyk. Includes 16 pages of full-color figures. 8-1/4" x 11-5/8", 64 pages (2009).
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