Delta-K,  Problem Solving,  Volume 31, Issue 3

Solids Construction

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 31 Issue 3, September 1993

20 – 22

Solids Construction

Sandra M. Pulver

While searching for some recreational mathematics for my own children to work on this summer, I found some constructions that I thought they (and other elementary or junior high school children) would enjoy-a mobile using the five Platonic Solids and other “space” figures made from regular polygons. Although these solids can be constructed in many ways, I will demonstrate the simplest.