Refiguring a Fold

About 7 million people and I have watched Jo Nakashima's Orgiami Fireworks (Yami Yamauchi)tutorial video of how to use 12 pieces of paper to make an exquisite, kaleidoscopic rotating object. I've made this object with teenagers and with teachers at a conference. It's great doing this with a group because then I don't have to…

Pattern by Rotation

A bit of eye candy tonight. Here's the birds eye view of two collapsed twist boxes . What's wild about these is that they are made from nearly the exact piece of paper. Here's the paper they were made from. Can you see the difference between them? What's going on is that the pattern is shifted…

Rotational Symmetry project with 5-9 year olds and Moms

I got to spend some time with a group of kids and moms this past Sunday. They had asked me to plan a math/art project for them. Last time we did this we played with shapes scaled according to the golden ratio. This time I wanted to help them make images that are made by…

Fraction & more Fractions

I've been working with 9 different grade levels, nine different projects, this month, which is kind of wild, and even more wild because of all the snow days and other unexpected shifts in schedules. Most of the projects we're doing are things I've written about enough on these pages, but I have managed to slide…