Paula Beardell Krieg’s intersecting squares

Saw a fun sequence of tweets from Paula Berdell Krieg last week:

yesterday I watched @mikeandallie look at 3D shapes. Inspired me to do some low tech 3d printing https://t.co/zBohVq1Rvk pic.twitter.com/OUId7yH2M9

— Paula Beardell Krieg (@PaulaKrieg) January 15, 2017

or, easy enough to count 24 square units…0h, yeah, I'm not making the shape circular. But can count 6 square units/quarter pic.twitter.com/WtOMaG62tv

— Paula Beardell Krieg (@PaulaKrieg) January 17, 2017

look! it unfolds completely, so that the centers become the edges and there's that shape you mentioned that's been in hiding. pic.twitter.com/JbCKh6mZi0

— Paula Beardell Krieg (@PaulaKrieg) January 17, 2017

Then . . . we received an envelope!

Next we compared the shape to the 3d prints it was based on:

After this I showed the boys the tweet above that shows how to unfold the shape into a cube and they were able to recreate the procedure:

Definitely a fun shape to explore – thanks to Paula for sending it to us! It really is amazing how much geometry you can explore just by folding paper 🙂