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Paper Tetrahedron

tetrahedron paper model

tetrahedron

Paper model tetrahedron on pedestal

Tetrahedron:
Number of faces: 4
Number of edges: 6
Number of vertices: 4

The tetrahedron is one of the 5 Platonic Solids (convex regular polyhedra). The model is made of 4 equilateral triangular faces.

Tetrahedron nets (templates) for making the shape

tetrahedron (.PDF)

tetrahedron on pedestal (.PDF)

tetrahedron (large) (.PDF)

Print the PDF file to make the paper model.

The large version of the tetrahedron has a circumscribed sphere diameter of 24 cm (9.5 inches).

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