The Platonic Solids
Photo Left: Kepler's Platonic solid model of the solar system.
What are the Platonic Solids? In Euclidean geometry, a Platonic solid is a regular, convex polyhedron whose faces are congruent, regular polygons, with the same number of faces meeting at each vertex. There are exactly five solids, each named according to its number of faces, including the tetrahedron, cube or hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
What are the Platonic Solids? In Euclidean geometry, a Platonic solid is a regular, convex polyhedron whose faces are congruent, regular polygons, with the same number of faces meeting at each vertex. There are exactly five solids, each named according to its number of faces, including the tetrahedron, cube or hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
Web Resources
Math is Fun - Platonic Solids
Dartmouth College - The Platonic Solids
Wenzel Jamnitzer (featured woodcuts in PowerPoint)
Wikipedia - Wenzel Jamnitzer
BiblioOdyssey - Wenzel Jamnitzer & his platonic solids
Wenzel Jamnitzer's Drawings (A Larger selection)
Math is Fun - Platonic Solids
Dartmouth College - The Platonic Solids
Wenzel Jamnitzer (featured woodcuts in PowerPoint)
Wikipedia - Wenzel Jamnitzer
BiblioOdyssey - Wenzel Jamnitzer & his platonic solids
Wenzel Jamnitzer's Drawings (A Larger selection)
Projects, Activities & Video Tutorials
Platonic Solids - Foldable Patterns from the book "Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook" by Bruce Rawles
Babble Dabble Doo - 3D Geometric Shapes
Platonic Solids within Metatron's Cube
Enchanted Learning - The Platonic Solids with foldable nets
Korthalsaltes - Platonic Solid Foldables
Platonic Solids - Foldable Patterns from the book "Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook" by Bruce Rawles
Babble Dabble Doo - 3D Geometric Shapes
Platonic Solids within Metatron's Cube
Enchanted Learning - The Platonic Solids with foldable nets
Korthalsaltes - Platonic Solid Foldables
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Download the Dodecahedron Craft from ViHart below. You can listen to her song that she wrote with the "board game". See if you can figure out the correlation between the foldable and the song. Here's the song link: playing.hypernom.com/twelve
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