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Really Big Math (or) What you can do with 1,054 envelopes and a whole bunch of tape.

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Really Big Math. (or) What you can do with 1,054 envelopes and a whole bunch of tape. Tetrahedra made from standard letter-size envelopes. (Thanks to George Thornton, who taught this at NWMI). Put four together to form a larger tetrahedron. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Really Big Math

Really Big Math

(or)

What you can do with 1,054 envelopes and a whole bunch of tape.

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(Thanks to George Thornton, who taught this at NWMI)

Tetrahedra made from standard letter-size envelopes.

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Put four together to form a larger tetrahedron.

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Put four more together to form an even larger tetrahedron.

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Take a moment to be really goofy.

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Put four of the last set together to form an even larger tetrahedron.

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…do it again.

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…and again (with a LOT of teamwork).

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And we finally finished!

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Tada! (By the way, this culminated a unit on sequences and series.)