Tetradyron - A special 3D shape

Explore the world of shapes

 

We all have taught our children about shapes. Square,rectangle and a pointy triangle, then there comes 3D shapes; cube, cone and sphere.

But have we thought of combining these shapes to make more shapes or designs?

I'm gonna tell you very craft way of combining a "simple shape" and make it into a "3D shape".

Let's get those two point in bold. Simple shape is triangle and the 3D shape is a tetrahedron.

 

Hmm, pretty clear to me, you tell me how helpful it was?

Making the tetrahedron is so fun that we had it as an activity in our game night for the homeschooling kids.

Lots of tetrahedrons

First name that comes in the mind is, its a "pyramid".

And its true!

The tetrahedron is one kind of pyramid, with a flat triangle base and triangular faces connecting to a common point. 

A 3D shape making activity in progress

 A tetrahedron is also known as a "triangular pyramid". 

A combination of tetrahedron is called a Sierpinski triangle

Do you want to conduct such activity at home or for a geometry class?

Attend the workshop happening on November 30,  2019 at the Nest I/O Karachi.

Visit the Facebook page here,like and and bring along a friend. That is all you need to do to get registered for this amazing free workshop.

Happy crafting!
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Summer Camp 2018 - Earth Math

When we say Math is all around us, we should start from where we are standing!
My colleague came up with this idea to 'show' how math can be observed and taught in a fun way to kids.
Math matters ran a summer camp in Karachi from 02-19 July 2018 and it also included Earth Theme.

This post includes the activities done and what concepts were learned.
To start off we colored the pot in an open place.

Kids learned color theory while mixing blue and yellow to make green color

Artists in the making

While kids put their pots to dry out, they played on a geoboard to make rectangle and square, it readied them on making a boundary inside which they would plant seeds.
 

Kids also tried making letters and numbers

After filling soil, kids made boundary with Popsicle sticks, counted them along and suggested the total is their 'perimeter', of course, they were right!
If you are teaching older kids, introduce the word 'perimeter' otherwise stick to 'boundary'.

 We had millet (bajra) as seeds. It grows overnight!

All the kids lovingly watered their pots and were anxious to see them grow!

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Catapult Challenge

Ever since we saw a YouTube video about catapult building, we fell in love with it.

Talha my then 6 yo thought its so simple to build and I agreed.

That was our biggest mistake.

You can see in the pictures the items to be used are so common but yet we couldn't find them. Who keeps Popsicle sticks after eating Walls ice cream or the large rubber bands.

Material for catapult building

OK we have those small rubber bands we get from Dahi Wala (yogurt shopkeeper) but they are wrapped so tightly with a mysterious knot that they break.
Sometimes I feel like asking the Dahi wala to teach me this knot.

So let get back to Catapult..
It happened that after so much effort and attempt, we finally got a prototype of catapult but it broke when we played a little with it.

After few months I went to a craft shop and there I found all the right supplies needed to built a perfect catapult.

We made three catapults: Left to right. Polka dot, butter fly, Pakistani truck art.

Since I am a homeschooling mom, I planned the catapult activity along with three other amazing fun projects for the homeschooling kids. The mothers registered so quickly that we ran out of slots and I had to lock the list of participants.

Moms brought the items required. Popsicle stick, crayons and rubber bands.

We selected kids aged 8 to 10 for the activity

Final result

We experimented with different materials to pop

So everyone was happy except for the moms who could not come and those who attended wanted the left over supplies for kids at home but there were none. 

It's then I decided I should buy the supplies and make it available for kids who are interested in building it and who isn't?

Visit my Facebook page, Message to get the kit along with two other Math project. Ideal for kids 8 to 13 year old.

Our Math Box

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