This week I bought a book by Greg Frederickson on the recommendation of Alexander Bogomolny:
Though I’ve hardly even scratched the surface of the book, just flipping through it showed me dozens of ideas to share with the boys.
Last night I had them skim through the book to find one idea each that they thought would be interesting to study.
My older son picked a project about hexagrams that we were able to study with our Zometool set (sorry that I forgot to adjust the focus on the camera . . . ):
The second project was one my younger son selected, but luckily he forgot how the dissection worked after picking it out last night. You can see from this part of the project that reconnecting the pieces into smaller shapes is a challenging project for kids even when they know it can be done.
Thanks to Alexander Bogomolny for making me aware of this book. I think we’ll have lots of fun playing around with the ideas we find!
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