Escape to a New Dimension: A Journey through Space with a Square, a Cube, and a Tesseract.

Camp, Dane R.

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Publication Date: 2006-Oct

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Escape to a New Dimension: A Journey through Space with a Square, a Cube, and a Tesseract

Camp, Dane R.

Mathematics Teacher, v100 n3 p180-183 Oct 2006

This article, a play designed around an imaginary conversation between geometric objects, summarizes various approaches to visualizing a tesseract (a.k.a. hypercube--a four-dimensional analog of a cube).

Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Geometry, Visualization, Drama

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