Friday 8/9

8:30-10:00

Discuss Assignment 5

The Tetrahedron in the cube

  • The volume of a corner made by diagonals
  • How many corners
  • Volume of the tetrahedral hole
  • Volume of a regular tetrahedron with side = 1
  • The role of scaling in solving problems

Solving Cubical puzzles - look for familiar shapes from this morning and from straw tetrahedra

Collect Assignment 5

Polydrons and Geoshapes

Rubber bands

Polypak cubical puzzles

10:00-10:15

Break

 

10:15-11:55

Dissections and Pythagoras

Cake! (Thanks)

Puzzle handout (one to cut our and one to keep)

Cake

11:55-12:55

Lunch

 

12:45-1:00

Story of Pi video

Project Mathematics video Story of Pi

1:00-3:00

Discussion - Art on professional life in teaching

Tessellations and Pythagorean puzzles - how to cut out a tessellation and get a Pythagorean puzzle

Origami Cubes

Assignments 3 and 4 returned

Goodbye

Tessellation page

Origami paper

Origami handout

Overnight Assignment

Sleep