Investigating with Power Solids (Grades 6+)

By Erica Dakin Voolich

Classroom-tested activities use Power Solids to search for relationships among the shapes, to discover the connection between surface area and volume, and to find out how three-dimensional shapes are related to their two-dimensional counterparts, called nets, Children make and test conjectures, then turn them into generalizations. In the comprehensive teacher's notes for each activity, the author offers discussion prompts as well as the mathematics behind each task.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156911062X
• ISBN13: 9781569110621
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Learning Resources
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Age Range: 11 to 14 years