{"id":1216,"date":"2016-05-23T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2016-05-23T12:01:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T16:01:22","slug":"the-star-project-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/the-star-project-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Star Project Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1217\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1217\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/files\/2016\/05\/2016-05-18-11.49.31-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Star folding!\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/files\/2016\/05\/2016-05-18-11.49.31-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/files\/2016\/05\/2016-05-18-11.49.31-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/files\/2016\/05\/2016-05-18-11.49.31-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/files\/2016\/05\/2016-05-18-11.49.31-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/files\/2016\/05\/2016-05-18-11.49.31-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/files\/2016\/05\/2016-05-18-11.49.31.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Star folding!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After my BC Calculus students rocked the 2016 AP exam (<a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/2016-ap-calculus-bc-free-response-questions-answers\/\">check out their custom answer keys!<\/a>), we started working on <a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/?s=star\">the\u00a0Star Project.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The learned how to fold a 60-piece star, and then I asked them two straight-forward questions:<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the surface area of the star in terms of the side length of one of the pieces of paper?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the volume of the star in terms of the side length of one of the piece of paper?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of their video solutions. The complete playlist of videos is online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLGqveiP4orWtmzJY2iWfT-XnceyO62IKq\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Surface Area<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Finding the Surface Area of a 60-piece Star\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OykHa8z4YCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Volume<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Finding the Volume of a 60-piece Star [Student]\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dZG6sJya-UA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my BC Calculus students rocked the 2016 AP exam (check out their custom answer keys!), we started working on the\u00a0Star Project. The learned how to fold a 60-piece star, and then I asked them two straight-forward questions: What&#8217;s the surface area of the star in terms of the side length of one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/the-star-project-continues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Star Project Continues<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[64],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-origami","tag-star-project"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4GnmO-jC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}