Drawing Stars & Building Polyhedra
By (author) Christopher Freeman
Paperback
(Prufrock Press, Jan. 1, 2005)
Using this book, students learn to draw stars with seven, eight, or more points, and formulate conjectures about their mathematical structure. They also assemble polygons into 3-D polyhedra and develop spatial intuition. Students develop a definition of star and find a procedure for drawing stars with seven, eight, nine, or more points. Students assemble equilateral triangles, squares, pentagons, ...