Snub dodecahedron
Okay kiddo, so a snub dodecahedron is a 3D shape made up of 80 little flat surfaces called faces. Each face has five sides, and there are 12 big faces that are like pentagons.
Imagine you have a ball that's made of 12 pentagons joined together, kind of like a soccer ball. But instead of being all round like a ball, the snub dodecahedron has little corners sticking out between the pentagons.
It's kind of like taking a regular dodecahedron, which is a shape with 12 flat pentagon faces that are all the same size, and cutting off the corners a little bit.
The snub dodecahedron is a really cool shape because it's symmetrical, meaning it looks the same from different angles. Scientists and mathematicians like studying shapes like this to learn more about how the world works.
Imagine you have a ball that's made of 12 pentagons joined together, kind of like a soccer ball. But instead of being all round like a ball, the snub dodecahedron has little corners sticking out between the pentagons.
It's kind of like taking a regular dodecahedron, which is a shape with 12 flat pentagon faces that are all the same size, and cutting off the corners a little bit.
The snub dodecahedron is a really cool shape because it's symmetrical, meaning it looks the same from different angles. Scientists and mathematicians like studying shapes like this to learn more about how the world works.