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    This document describes how to make matchstick models using matchsticks and cycle valve tubes as joints. Various shapes can be constructed including triangles, squares, pentagons and three-dimensional structures like tetrahedrons and prisms. More complex joints of four, five and six matchsticks are shown that can be used to construct models like pyramids and icosahedrons. The document explains that these simple models provide an engaging way to learn about geometry and structural engineering concepts.

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    This document describes how to make matchstick models using matchsticks and cycle valve tubes as joints. Various shapes can be constructed including triangles, squares, pentagons and three-dimensional structures like tetrahedrons and prisms. More complex joints of four, five and six matchsticks are shown that can be used to construct models like pyramids and icosahedrons. The document explains that these simple models provide an engaging way to learn about geometry and structural engineering concepts.

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    This document describes how to make matchstick models using matchsticks and cycle valve tubes as joints. Various shapes can be constructed including triangles, squares, pentagons and three-dimensional structures like tetrahedrons and prisms. More complex joints of four, five and six matchsticks are shown that can be used to construct models like pyramids and icosahedrons. The document explains that these simple models provide an engaging way to learn about geometry and structural engineering concepts.

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    This document describes how to make matchstick models using matchsticks and cycle valve tubes as joints. Various shapes can be constructed including triangles, squares, pentagons and three-dimensional structures like tetrahedrons and prisms. More complex joints of four, five and six matchsticks are shown that can be used to construct models like pyramids and icosahedrons. The document explains that these simple models provide an engaging way to learn about geometry and structural engineering concepts.

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    MATCHSTICK MODELS

    1. These matchstick models use


    matchsticks as the basic structural cycle valve tube
    members and cycle valve tubes as
    the basic joints. Cycle valve tube is
    cheap. A packet of 100 gms. costs
    Rs.15/- and contains 12 metres (50
    feet) of valve tube.

    2. Cut 1.5 cms.


    long pieces of the
    valve tube.
    Scrape the
    sulphur from the
    matchstick heads 3. Push two matchsticks through the two ends
    with a blade. of the valve tube. This is a joint -of - two.

    4. This flexible joint can be used


    for depicting angles - acute, 5. Three match- sticks and three valve
    right, obtuse angles etc. tubes can be looped to make an equilateral
    triangle.

    6. Other shapes like squares, rectangles, pentagons, hexagons can


    be made by joining more matchsticks and valve tube pieces.

    7. If you press the 8. The square when


    9. But no matter how
    pentagon it changes pressed becomes a
    hard you press, a
    shape and becomes rhombus.
    triangle remains a
    boat shaped. triangle. The triangle is
    the only rigid polygon.
    That is why roof
    trusses, bridges,
    electricity towers are
    made of triangles. The
    triangles make them
    rigid and strong.
    THREE DIMENSIONAL MODELS

    3. Take the equilateral triangle


    2. Insert a third match- and poke holes in its valve
    1. Pierce a hole in the valve tube stick (slightly sharpened tube joints with a thorn.
    joint-of- two, by poking it at at the end) in this hole. Now insert the three match-
    right angles either with a long This is a joint- of - three, stick ends of the T-joint in the
    needle or else a thorn. or simply a T-joint. holes of the triangle.
    TETRAHEDRON

    4. This structure is called


    a TETRAHEDRON. 5. All its surfaces are equilateral
    It has 4 corners, 6 triangles. Triangles are rigid.
    edges and 4 distinct 6. PENTAGONAL BOX
    So this triangular house is very
    surfaces. strong.

    7. In a similar manner two separate


    triangles can be joined together using 8. Two separate squares can be joined
    three matchsticks to make a PRISM. with four matchsticks to make a CUBE.

    9. Several of these three-dimensional


    structures can be put together to make
    different kinds of houses and other
    configurations. You can play with this simple
    meccano to create your own models.
    JOINTS OF FOUR, FIVE AND SIX

    1. Take two pieces of valve


    tube about 2 cms. long.
    2. Pull both the ends of the
    Weave a thorn through the
    second valve tube and slide it 3. Use these joints to
    hole of one. Then pierce the
    over the first one. Gently make a PYRAMID
    thorn through the centre of
    remove the cross, joint- of-
    the other valve tube.
    four from the thorn.

    5. The second and the third


    4 Make a joint-of-four but tubes are at right angles to the 6. Weave this matchstick
    do not remove it from the first tube. Insert a small piece needle through the centre of
    thorn. Just like the second, of a matchstick in any of the the other leg of the ‘H’.
    insert a third valve tube. four free legs of the ‘H’.

    7. Now remove the


    thorn and phase out 8. This is a joint-of -six.
    the six valve tube legs For a joint-of- five, simply cut 9. You can attach six
    to form a star. one of the legs of the ‘H’. matchsticks to the star joint.

    10. Assemble twelve joints-of- five and thirty matchsticks to make an ICOSAHEDRON.
    One pentagonal face of the icosahedrons can be flexed in to make an IGLOO.
    With joints of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, and matchsticks as members there are many different kinds of
    models and structures which you can make. This is a very interesting way to learn solid
    geometry.

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