Build Your Own Polyhedra

by Peter Hilton

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 020149096X
• ISBN13: 9780201490961
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Use the Suggested Materials

I had touble with this book at first because I thought that I could just skip the given materials, use paper and be fine. I was wrong. Once you use the gummed mailing tape miracles happen. Anyone can create the polyhedra in this book with a little gummed mailing tape and some time on your hands. I have really enjoyed this book.

A book for kids of all ages

I used this book to generate additional projects for my honors geometry students. The students all loved it. They were able to create beautiful objects that also had real mathematical significance. I have also used this book with friends. Creating these objects with others is a great way to initiate mathematical conversations with "non-mathematicians". "Real" mathematicians also dig it. If you enjoy math or think you might enjoy math, try this book.