Our Term 2 Math project was to construct a geodesic
dome. A geodesic dome is basically a lightweight dome constructed of
interlocking polygons invented by R. Buckminster Fuller. At first, all of us
were fascinated by the fact that we had to make domes and were really excited
to start off. We watched a video on how to construct the dome. The dome
consisted of 6 pentagons with 5 isosceles triangles and 10 equilateral
triangles arranged together.
We were instructed to make the pentagons and
equilateral triangles at home and bring all of them to school to assemble
together. When we started off, it seemed easy but then the difficult part was
to make all the triangles of the exact length. We had to redo many as they were
not up to the mark. After this, we got all the shapes to school to
assemble them together to make the dome.
Sticking the first ones wasn’t a very difficult
task but as we went higher on the dome, it became harder; after working for two
periods, we were finally done with our own geodesic dome that we constructed
from scratch. All of us thoroughly enjoyed doing this project!
Sharon Biju – 9G CIE
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