- Explain your process The football that my group and I have constructed was not complete but here is the process: Starting off, we knew that the spaghetti noodles were too long so we all had to snap them in half. Then we snapped them once more since they were again, quite long. After, we decided to construct our football out of hexagons and triangles. We constructed the base of the football in the shape of a hexagon. Then, we added triangles to every second side of the base and the football kind of started to take shape. However, after we finished the sides of the triangle, it started to collapse on its own so someone had to hold on to it while we added interior parts to support the shape. In the end, we finished the general structure of the football but did not get a chance to reinforce it so that it would stand better on it’s own.
- What did you learn/change? At first we constructed the football using the spaghetti that was only snapped once. However, after we built the hexagon, it was too big so we decided to use smaller pieces of spaghetti to construct it. After the outermost structure was built, we decided that we should attach triangular spaghetti shapes to the inside of the football to have it maintain it’s shape.
- How is this a math problem? This is a math problem because we have to know what shapes go together well and know what shapes are useful to keep the structure intact. I also needed to know how many triangles and hexagons I would need in order for the structure to look ball-like.
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