Geometric Nets Project Book: Geometric Nets to Cut Out and Construct

by David E McAdams

Overview

Geometric nets provide many hours of fascinating fun! Each net represents the surface of a unique geometric shape. Some of the shapes were described as much as 2500 years ago.

A geometric net is a flat drawing that can be cut and folded into a three dimensional figure. For example, six identical squares can be made into a cube. This is because a cube has six sides, all of which are identical squares. Each of the drawings in this book can be cut and folded into a three dimensional geometric object.

This book contains 80 geometric nets:

• Bielongated Triangular Antiprism
• Cone
• Cube
• Cuboctahedron
• Cylinder
• Decagonal Antiprism
• Decagonal Prism
• Deltoidal Icositetrahedron
• Die
• Disdyakis Dodecahedron
• Dodecahedron, Regular
• Elongated Pentagonal Bipyramid
• Elongated Pentagonal Cupola
• Elongated Pentagonal Pyramid
• Elongated Square Bipyramid
• Elongated Square Pyramid
• Elongated Triangular Antiprism
• Elongated Triangular Bipyramid
• Elongated Triangular Cupola
• Elongated Triangular Pyramid
• Frustum of a Decagon Pyramid
• Frustum of a Quadrilateral Pyramid
• Frustum of a Triangular Pyramid
• Great Dodecahedron
• Great Stellated Dodecahedron
• Gyroelongated Pentagonal Pyramid
• Gyroelongated Square Bipyramid
• Gyroelongated Square Prism
• Gyroelongated Square Pyramid
• Heptagonal Pyramid
• Heptahedron 4,4,4,3,3,3,3
• Heptahedron 5,5,5,4,4,4,3
• Heptahedron 6,6,4,4,4,3,3
• Hexagonal Prism
• Hexagonal Pyramid
• Hexahedron 4,4,4,4,3,3
• Hexahedron 5,4,4,3,3,3
• Hexahedron 5,5,4,4,3,3
• Icosahedron, Regular
• Icosidodecahedron
• Oblique Square Pyramid
• Octagonal Antiprism
• Octahedron, Regular
• Pentagonal Antiprism
• Pentagonal Bipyramid
• Pentagonal Cupola
• Pentagonal Prism
• Pentagonal Pyramid
• Pentagonal Rotunda
• Pentagrammic Prism
• Rectangular Pyramid
• Rhombic Prism
• Rhombicuboctahedron
• Right Pentagonal Star Pyramid
• Small Rhombidodecahedron
• Small Stellated Dodecahedron
• Snub Cube
• Snub Dodecahedron
• Square Antiprism
• Square Cupola
• Square Pyramid
• Square Trapezohedron
• Stellated Octahedron
• Tetrahedron - Regular
• Tetrakis Hexahedron
• Triakis Octahedron
• Triakis Tetrahedron
• Triangular Bipyramid
• Triangular Cupola
• Triangular Pentahedron
• Triangular Prism
• Triangular Pyramid, Oblique
• Truncated Cube
• Truncated Cuboctahedron
• Truncated Dodecahedron
• Truncated Icosahedron
• Truncated Icosidodecahedron
• Truncated Octahedron
• Truncated Square Trapezohedron
• Truncated Tetrahedron

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632702500
Publisher:	Life is a Story Problem, LLC
Publication date:	05/02/2021
Series:	Math Books for Children , #22
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

After 30 years of software development, David McAdams was looking for something new to do. He turned his attention to math instruction. Through his coursework at Utah Valley University, he learned how critical vocabulary acquisition is to all learning, and especially to math. Math has long been regarded as its having its own language, with its own syntax and symbols. The acquisition of this language has been found to be a barrier to many students.

After the completion of his internship, Mr. McAdams finished compiling vocabulary words into a comprehensive dictionary, written for middle school and high school students. “All Math Words Dictionary” is the culmination of eight years work collecting, classifying and describing all of the words a student might encounter in their studies of algebra, geometry, and calculus. This book has over 3000 entries; more than 140 notations defined; in excess of 790 illustrations; an IPA pronunciation guide; and greater than 1400 formulas and equations.

While working on the dictionary, between playing with his grandchildren, Mr. McAdams started developing other ideas for math literacy. The results are "Numbers", "What is Bigger than Anything (Infinity)", "Swing Sets (Set Theory)".

Branching out, Mr. McAdams took a departure from teaching tools into the arena of pure mathematical delight. This results in two volumes of "My Favorite Fractals".

While reading a book on colors to his grandson Sawyer, got to thinking how boring books are colors are for adults. "What in the natural world," he mused, "has enough of the primary and secondary colors to teach colors to children?" His answer was either frogs or parrots. He created "Parrot Colors", "Flower Colors", and "Space Colors".

Returning to math, Mr. McAdams remembered how, in his youth, he found a few printouts of geometric nets and was fascinated how they folded together into complex, 3-dimensional objects. He prepared "Geometric Nets Project Book, then "Geometric Nets Mega Project Book.