An electronics company is designing a new video gaming system and wants it to have a unique shape. The company is considering a square-based pyramid design, but would like to know all of the packaging layouts for this figure in order to determine packaging costs. The marketing department manager has asked for your help in determining all of the possible nets for packaging their square-based pyramid gaming system.
In this activity, students will predict the total number of different nets possible for constructing a square-based pyramid and then test their prediction by constructing square-based pyramids from Polydron pieces and unfolding them to create different nets.
Questions
- Predict the total number of different nets possible for constructing a square-based pyramid.
- Test your prediction by constructing square-based pyramids from Polydron pieces and unfolding them to create different nets. Draw each net on isometric dot paper.
Answers
- There are 6 different nets possible for constructing a square-based pyramid.
- To test your prediction, you can construct square-based pyramids from Polydron pieces and unfold them to create different nets. You can then draw each net on isometric dot paper.