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Taylor & Francis Ltd Project Origami Activities For Exploring Mathematics 2Nd Edition 2013 by Thomas Hull
Project Origami: Activities for Exploring Mathematics, Second Edition presents a flexible, discovery-based approach to learning origami-math topics. It helps readers see how origami intersects a variety of mathematical topics, from the more obvious realm of geometry to the fields of algebra, number theory, and combinatorics. With over 100 new pages, this updated and expanded edition now includes 30 activities and offers better solutions and teaching tips for all activities.The book contains detailed plans for 30 hands-on, scalable origami activities. Each activity lists courses in which the activity might fit, includes handouts for classroom use, and provides notes for instructors on solutions, how the handouts can be used, and other pedagogical suggestions. The handouts are also available on the book's CRC Press web page.Reflecting feedback from teachers and students who have used the book, this classroom-tested text provides an easy and entertaining way for teachers to incorporate origami into a range of college and advanced high school math courses.Visit the author's website for more information. IntroductionActivity 1 Folding Equilateral Triangles in a Square Activity 2 Origami Trigonometry Activity 3 Dividing a Length into Equal Nths: Fujimoto Approximation Activity 4 Dividing a Length into Equal Nths Exactly Activity 5 Origami Helix Activity 6 Folding a Parabola Activity 7 Can Origami Trisect an Angle?Activity 8 Solving Cubic Equations Activity 9 Lill's Method Activity 10 Folding Strips into Knots Activity 11 Haga's "Origamics" Activity 12 Modular Star Ring Activity 13 Folding a Butterfly Bomb Activity 14 Molly's Hexahedron Activity 15 Business Card Modulars Activity 16 Five Intersecting Tetrahedra Activity 17 Making Origami Buckyballs Activity 18 Making Origami Tori Activity 19 Modular Menger Sponge Activity 20 Folding and Coloring a Crane Activity 21 Exploring Flat Vertex FoldsActivity 22 Impossible Crease Patterns Activity 23 Folding a Square Twist Activity 24 Counting Flat Folds Activity 25 Self-Similar Wave Activity 26 Matrix Model of Flat Vertex Folds Activity 27 Matrix Model of 3D Vertex Folds Activity 28 Origami and Homomorphisms Activity 29 Rigid Folds 1: Gaussian Curvature Activity 30 Rigid Folds 2: Spherical Trigonometry Appendix: Which Activities Go with Which CoursesBibliography Index