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
Author Biography:
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.Aftaer 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)", and "Learning with Play Money".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.
