The Webinar on Geometry and Soccer took place on Thursday, March 7th, 2024 from 5 pm until 6 pm, with Melissa Castillo Medrano, Deputy Chief of the area of Mathematics of the Newton School and teacher of the Education Department at the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences in Peru, as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The invited speaker started the virtual event by explaining what regular polygons and regular polyhedra are. Melissa Castillo Medrano then mentioned that a traditional soccer ball has 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons, that is it has 32 faces in total. The speaker also presented Euler’s Theorem and described how we can construct our own soccer ball, which is a truncated icosahedron. This virtual event was co-organized with the Peruvian Association of Research in Math Education (APINEMA).
