“Morigami”
Comments: 0 - Date: January 3rd, 2012 - Categories: Uncategorized
More origami! Thanks to Sarita’s recommendation, I picked up the movie “Between the Folds” which was on PBS a few years back and showed it to the students after we made cubes using unit origami. It’s a fantastic documentary about the mathematics of paper folding and applications to many aspects of life. One student in 6th grade recognized her neighbor in the film and we are hoping he may want to come teach us more about this aspect of origami.
A few 8th graders made a triambic icosahedron (30 unit origami pieces!!!) Check out these great photos!
Click here for a youtube with step by step directions for this figure. It used the same unit folding that we learned in class!
Wikipedia has a decent overview of origami: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami
Eric Demaine’s website is pretty exciting. http://erikdemaine.org/
A link to the instructions for the hyperbolic paraboloid: https://www.math.lsu.edu/~verrill/origami/parabola/ You can also find this on youtube.
I hope that some of you continue to learn more about paper folding. Let me know about your discoveries!











