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NRICH topics: Cross-curricular contexts Origami

Resources tagged with: Origami

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There are 11 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Origami, you may find related items under Cross-curricular contexts.

Broad Topics > Cross-curricular contexts > Origami

Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Paper Partners

Can you describe a piece of paper clearly enough for your partner to know which piece it is?

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Paper Patchwork 2

Have a go at making a few of these shapes from paper in different sizes. What patterns can you create?

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Paper Patchwork 1

Can you work out what shape is made when this piece of paper is folded up using the crease pattern shown?

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star
Article Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Purposeful Paper Folding

In this article for primary teachers, Fran describes her passion for paper folding as a springboard for mathematics.

Age 5 to 11
List Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Puzzling with Paper

These tasks offer opportunities for deepening learners' mathematical understanding and their positive learning dispositions.

Age 5 to 11
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Regular Rings 2

What shape is made when you fold using this crease pattern? Can you make a ring design?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Folding Flowers 2

Make a flower design using the same shape made out of different sizes of paper.

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Folding Flowers 1

Can you visualise what shape this piece of paper will make when it is folded?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
General Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Modular Origami Polyhedra

These models have appeared around the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Perhaps you would like to try to make some similar models of your own.

Age 7 to 16
Challenge Level Yellow star
Article Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Paper Folding - Models of the Platonic Solids

A description of how to make the five Platonic solids out of paper.

Age 11 to 16
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Dodecawhat

Follow instructions to fold sheets of A4 paper into pentagons and assemble them to form a dodecahedron. Calculate the error in the angle of the not perfectly regular pentagons you make.

Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level Yellow star

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