Many of us have played with a soccer ball before and have been interesed in its shape. I used to think that all the faces on such a ball were hexagons. However, after carefully studying it, I realized that even though some faces have six edges, there are many that hagve five edges also. to be exact, a soccer ball is a polyhedron that consists of 12 regular pentagons and 20 regular hexagons. A soccer ball is an example of a polyhedron.
Tags: Jeremy Spain-Carrion
Real Life Applications for Geometry 
May 17, 2010 at 5:14 pm |
that is intersesting i always thought it was a sixsided figure on the ball nice job
May 19, 2010 at 7:51 pm |
Thats really cool. I never knew that some have less than others. I would have never thought of that. Good example
May 19, 2010 at 11:02 pm |
Oh that’s cool I never knew there was more than one shape on a soccer ball.
May 21, 2010 at 1:47 pm |
This is really cool. I always wondered about the hexagons on a soccer ball. and why it was like that.
May 21, 2010 at 3:15 pm |
Interesting, I don’t really study soccer balls often but I can see how it is a polyhedron.