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A mathematical bauble Activity

by David Shaw, 19 December 2016 | 0 comments

A round ball made of colured paper.

Feeling festive? This cool mathematical bauble is fun to make, and looks great too!

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Lolly-toothpick platonic solids Activity

by David Shaw, 25 February 2014 | 3 comments

an icosahedron.

There are five regular solids – we call these the Platonic solids. The faces of a platonic solid are all the same, regular shape, and the same number of faces meet at each vertex (corner). In this activity you can make all five of them!

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