Making Platonic Solids
Instructions:
1. Let's
see how many regular polyhedra you can make from the components
in this exhibit. You can use the triangular faces, the
squares, the pentagonal faces as well as the black connecting
edges.
Do you know?
There exist only five polyhedra whose faces are all congruent
regular polygons, and where the same number of faces meet
at every vertex. This was disovered by the Greek philosopher
Plato about 2,400 years ago. So these solids are collectively
known as the Platonic Solids.
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