Bring A Child To Work Those Fabulous Hexagons
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6 Sides 8 Sides Hexagon Examples How To Make a Nice Hexagon
Draw Six Dots How To Make a Nice Hexagon
Draw Six Dots and Connect Them Nope! How To Make a Nice Hexagon
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6 Draw Six Dots and Connect With Nope! Six Lines How To Make a Nice Hexagon
Draw Six Dots and Connect With Six Lines Yes! That Don’t Cross Hexagonal Shapes in Nature
Artistic Useful
Can You Make One of These? This Guy Can! Strong and Economical Strong and Economical Strong and Economical
The Hex Nut Biggest Hex Nuts On Campus
Where? Biggest Hex Nuts On Campus Turning Hex Nuts
Adjustable Crescent Wrenches Allen Wrenches and Allen Screws
Hexagonal Hole Pent Nuts: Making it Hard
Only the Fire Department has the special wrench Making A Perfect Hexagon Examples of Perfect Polygons
Dodecagon Hexagon Triangle
Decagon
Square
Pentagon
Octagon Important Word
A polygon is a shape with straight sides.
A 4-gon is a square An 6-gon is a hexagon An 8-gon is an octagon A 1000-gon would look almost like a circle The All-Important Prefix
Think of March as the 5: Pentagon 5: July First Month 6: Hexagon 6: August 7: Septagon* 7: September 8: Octagon 8: October 9: Nonagon 9: November 10: Decagon 10: December
*Actually the preferred term is “Heptagon” , but that wrecks the analogy! The All-Important Prefix
5: Pentagon 5: Pentember 6: Hexagon 6: Hexember 7: Septagon 7: September 8: Octagon 8: October 9: Nonagon 9: November 10: Decagon 10: December “Star” Polygons “Star” Polygons Polygon Activity: Tiling You Can Tile With Triangles You Can Tile With Squares You Cannot Tile with Pentagons
They do not fit together! You Can Tile With Hexagons How many different colors do we need so each tile is different from its neighbors? 7 ! Little Question Big Answer
About how many little hex tiles do you need to tile the Earth?
(a) 1,000,000 (b) 1,000,000,000 (c) 1.000,000,000,000,000 (d) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Tiling with Hexagons and Triangles Tiling with Octagons and Squares An Important Word
It is possible to tessellate the plane with hexagons.
It is possible to tessellate the plane with squares and octagons Another Polygon Activity: Making Perfect Solids
There are only 5 Perfect (Platonic) Solids Dodecahedron
12 faces
Each face is a perfect pentagon Archimedean Solids The Most Famous Archimedean Solid
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??? Pentagons The Most Famous Archimedean Solid
22 Hexagons
12 Pentagons Why I Like Hexagons
1. I like artistic things. Hexagons are nice to look at.
2. I like building things. Hexagons are useful.
I like Engineering GreatAnimal Engineers Great Animal Engineers Great Animal Engineers Geometry Is Important
How do you fit all this stuff inside? Computers Help
Can’t keep track of everything in our heads! Geometry is Important
How to you get from A to B? Build Beautiful Things… And Learn to Find Them Why Do I Like Hexagons?
The REAL reason is this…. My Favorite Candy Is Hexagonal Recipe for Success
They Taste Better This Way Become A True Hexagon Person!