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An interesting extension of the ideas from Pascal's triangle can be found inPascal's tetrahedron, a three-dimensional version of Pascal's triangle. In thisarticle, I explain how Pascal's tetrahedron in formed and what links it haswith Pascal's Triangle.We are trying to create a triangular pyramid of numbers. Specifically, thisshould be a triangular based pyramid, not a square based pyramid like those inEgypt (there's nothing to stop you exploring a square based Pascal's pyramid,however, which is bound to have many interesting patterns, properties and linksto the triangular version waiting to be discovered). At the very tip of thepyramid, we start with the number 1. Instead of looking down rows as inPascal's triangle, we are interested in the layers of this pyramid, and eachlayer should be a triangle of numbers. Whilst in Pascal's triangle, each numberis the sum of the two above, in Pascal's tetrahedron is the sum on numbers onthe layer above.It's easy to get confused at first when writing out the layers of Pascal'stetrahedron and thinking about what is supposed to add up to make what. Mostpeople start off OK by writing down the first couple of layers like this:Layer 0:1Layer 1:11 1Then, however, they want to add up all three numbers in layer 1 and put a 3directly below the middle of them in layer 2. This is where they get confusedas they can't make the numbers in layer 2 form a triangular shape.What we actually need to do for layer 2 is take the sums of each of thethree edges from layer 1 and also directly outwards, treating each number as acorner. Then, for layer 2 we get what is shown below:12 21 2 1Although in layer 2 we never added three numbers from the previous layertogether, sometimes you have to. I find Pascal's pyramid very hard to visualise,so if you're finding this hard, then you're not alone! To avoid arranging andadding the numbers incorrectly, I have a couple of suggestions. Firstly, whenwriting out layers, centralise them rather than left justifying them. Thismakes is easier to see the symmetry in the layers and see triangles of numberswhich you might have to add together.Secondly, if you can, try to create some sort of model of Pascal's pyramid.This done most easily with cubes - if you have enough dice you can cover eachone with paper and write your own numbers on them, and then stack them in apyramid. This is, however, a little fiddly, so you may find it easier to drawequilateral triangles of dots of different sizes on separate laminates, tracingpaper or thin tissue paper. If you use a different colour dot on each sheet,and place them on top of each other, you can see quite easily which dots fromthe top sheet are adjacent to any dot from the bottom sheet, telling whatnumbers you have to add together to calculate the numbers on the bottom sheet.So you can check you've got the hang of it, I have listed the first thefirst few layers of Pascal's pyramid below:Layer 0:1Layer 1:11 1Layer 2:12 21 2 1Layer 3:13 33 6 31 3 3 1Layer 4:14 46 12 64 12 12 41 4 6 4 1Layer 5:15 510 20 1010 30 30 105 20 30 20 51 5 10 10 5 1Once you are confident at how Pascal's tetrahedron works, there is no end offun to be had. The first and most obvious question is exactly how it links withPascal's triangle. This can be done by thinking about how patterns fromPascal's triangle can be applied to Pascal's tetrahedron, and from there makingcomparisons between the two. Try to discover some new patterns and propertiesin the more complex world of Pascal's tetrahedron for yourself! Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin-top:0cm;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0cm;line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} Article Tags: Pascal's Triangle, Pascal's Tetrahedron, Pascal's Pyramid