Geometric Solids

Monday, October 29 Today we discussed geometric solids! It doesn't sound very exciting BUT it was because we got to use candy! All we needed was a paper towel (to be clean), some toothpicks, and some candy spiced drops. We were given a packet with the name and picture of the solid and each group member was asked to help in making the shapes. The shapes we made were a cube, triangular prism, square pyramid, and a rectangular prism. Then, we wrote the number of faces, shapes of the faces, number of vertices, number of edges, and where in the world we would ever find these shapes. (Click here for definitions). We ended up with this!

Afterwards, we moved on to cylinders, spheres, and cones. These shapes were much different than the triangles because they are circles!

Lastly, we discussed Euler's Theorem. This explains that the vertices + the number of faces - edges= 2