For today’s math project we are doing a 2nd project from George Hart and Henri Picciotto’s Zome Geometry:
I asked the boys to pick three shapes from the section on Archimedean solids. Here’s what they picked:
Shape 1: A Truncated Icosahedron
You start with a triple length icosahedron:
They you truncate it:
Shape 2: A truncated dodecahedron
Start with a dodecahedron with sides made from two short blue struts and 1 medium blue strut:
Now truncate it:
Shape 3:
Truncated Octahedron;
Start with an octahedron with side lengths equal to 3 long green struts.
Now truncate: