Summer
Explorations
And
Research
Collaborations for
High School Girls

S E A R C H
Mount Holyoke College

Students' Questions:

About Polyhedra


Question: (S.B.) How many polyhedra can be made from the Latin Cross?


Question: (L.L.) Does an object need at least 3 faces to be 3 dimensional?


Question: (S.B.) Is there any 3-faced polyhedron?


Conjecture: (L.L.) A cylinder is 3-‘faced’.


Question: (S.J.) How is the degenerate polyhedron different than a polygon?


Question: (S.B.) Does every polyhedron made from a latin cross have curvature 720?


Question: (S.B.) Does a polyhedron folded from a different polygon have different curvature?


Questions: (??) Can we go lower than 0, higher than 360? (in curvature at a vertex) Can we glue together more than 360?

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SummerMath Program