How to Build Cubes
In your geometry classes, you will need to become accustomed to modeling 3-D figures. Cubes, as far as 3-D figures go, are relatively easy to model because all of their edges are the same length. To build a cube, you may use various supplies that you probably already have around your house, such as drinking straws, toothpicks, modeling clay and fishing wire. Or, if you need to be extremely precise and neat when building your cube, you can purchase a cube building kit.
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Things You'll Need
- Cube building materials of your choice (household straws, paper clips, etc).
- Ruler
Instructions
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Use your ruler to cut your straw into uniform pieces of the same length. Whether you are using straws or other building materials, you will need 12 uniform pieces.
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Use paper clips to join four pieces of straw together, into the shape of a square, for the bottom of the cube, Use paper clips to join four pieces of straw together, into the shape of a square, for the top of the cube.
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Connect the corners of the top and bottom of the cube together, with the four other pieces of straw. You may connect the four pieces of straw, with eight more paper clips, to the paper clips that are already on the top and bottom of your cube.
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Tweak your straws until the pieces of straw form a cube.
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