2024 Northwest Mathematics Conference

While building tetrahedron kites out of drinking straws, paper ribbons, and tissue paper is fun and colorful, we will not forget to look at the mathematics that might be hidden in them. We can count lengths and perimeter along the edges, see the areas on the faces and touch the volumes built in the kites. And then we will look for, find and discover all of the hidden tetrahedron numbers and find the connection between similar shapes. Why does the volume get to n^3.