Simplest Flexagon

Folded things, flexagon not included This evening I'm teaching a class that Center for Book Arts is called Seasonal Folding. As I'm sitting here preparing my materials, I'm also reading over the class description, with the thought in my head "what was I thinking????" Actually I know what I was thinking. I was thinking that…

Video Tutorial for My Flexagon

Folded-FollyDownload About a month ago I zoom-taught a group of about 200 people how to make this very sweet fidgety flexagon that I had created. The Museum of Mathematics hosted the event. As I want to show this to anyone who wants to learn it, I (finally) made a tutorial video of my flexagon. Start…

Hexagon-Flexagon: Post #3, Instructions

After posting  about Hexagaon-Flexagons on November 10 and November 16, I started working on making a template for teaching this tricky paper invention. Even though this  structure is well covered on the net, what I want to add to the mix is something to make the folding easier. When I've taught this structure the part that people have the…

Hexagon-Flexagons: Post 2, Fractions

Except for the last picture, all of the images in this post exist on one hexagon-flexagon. In my last post I showed hexagon-flexagons that were about making designs with pencil, paper, and gouache. When I was making the design for this post I was thinking more about math. Okay, now here I go,showcasing my hexagon-flexagon as way to illustrate fractions, rather…