{"product_id":"project-origami-9781466567917","title":"Project Origami","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProject Origami: Activities for Exploring Mathematics, Second Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReflecting feedback from teachers and students who have used the book, this classroom-tested text provides an easy and entertaining \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for the First Edition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who wants to enliven their class activities, this book gives wonderfully clear instructions for hands-on pager-folding activities, and specific suggestions as how to encourage students to ask questions, and to answer them, in the spirit of really ‘doing mathematics’ … I will use it next time I teach the Polya Enumeration Theorem.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eMathematical Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e, February 2008\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs it possible to use origami in the higher level mathematics classroom? An affirmative answer is given by Thomas Hull’s book \u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eProject Origami: Activities for Exploring Mathematics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. Based on Hull’s extensive experience of combining origami and mathematics teaching over the last fifteen years, it aims to help the teacher bring origami into the mathematics classroom, at the high school, college, and university level.\u003cbr\u003e—Helena Verrill, \u003ci\u003eAMS Notices\u003c\/i\u003e, May 2007\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Hull … is one of the country’s foremost researchers in origami mathematics—a subject making the slow transition from the ghetto of recreational math, where Sudoku and Rubik’s Cube dwell, to the rarified air of legitimate research topic … The fun part is watching the mash-up of intellectual analysis and paper creativity … but what really drives him, he says, is understanding what’s happening underneath each figure. \u003cbr\u003e—David Brooks, Nashuatelegraph.com, May 2007\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his efforts to collect everything that he could find linking origami and math (and in his own research efforts), Hull has discovered not only the obvious links between origami and geometry but also intriguing intersections of origami with other fields of mathematics, such as algebra, number theory, and combinatorics.\u003cbr\u003e—Ivars Peterson, \u003cem\u003eScience News\u003c\/em\u003e, June 2006\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOverall, this book is an excellent resource for mathematics educators who would like to include some hands-on experimentation in their teaching.\u003cbr\u003e—Steven Frankel, \u003ci\u003eMAA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, July 2006\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is probably the most comprehensive study of mathematical paperfolding produced in book form to date. … Along with theorems and formulas, there are copious notes for instructors, making the book more a teachers’ manual than a recreational pursuit. Even so it will reward a study even by those wishing solely to produce decorative forms.\u003cbr\u003e—John Cunliffe, ELFA and British Origami Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book shows you how and explains how! … The book is neatly presented and is designed to work as a sourcebook for teachers wishing to use origami in the classroom, but is easily accessible to anyone.\u003cbr\u003e—Dennis Walker, British Origami Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Hull has written a truly wonderful book … \u003cb\u003eProject Origami\u003c\/b\u003e is full of surprises and depth. Hull is passionate about his work and it shines through in this text … Concrete connections to curriculum (upper high-school levels, undergraduate levels) are made clear, highlighting the relevance and importance of this material to mathematics education. Every teacher should take a hold of this book … Hull shares the joy of doing and exploring real mathematics and provides a route that all can pursue.\u003cbr\u003e—James Tanton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Folding Equilateral Triangles in a Square. Origami Trigonometry. Dividing a Length into Equal \u003ci\u003eN\u003c\/i\u003eths: Fujimoto Approximation. Dividing a Length into Equal \u003ci\u003eN\u003c\/i\u003eths Exactly. Origami Helix. Folding a Parabola. Can Origami Trisect an Angle? Solving Cubic Equations. Lill’s Method. Folding Strips into Knots. Haga’s Origamics. Modular Star Ring. Folding a Butterfly Bomb. Molly’s Hexahedron. Business Card Modulars. Five Intersecting Tetrahedra. Making Origami Buckyballs. Making Origami Tori. Modular Menger Sponge. Folding and Coloring a Crane. Exploring Flat Vertex Folds.Impossible Crease Patterns. Folding a Square Twist. Counting Flat Folds. Self-Similar Wave. Matrix Model of Flat Vertex Folds. Matrix Model of 3D Vertex Folds. Origami and Homomorphisms. Rigid Folds 1: Gaussian Curvature. Rigid Folds 2: Spherical Trigonometry. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019890295127,"sku":"9781466567917","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781466567917.jpg?v=1750781621","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/project-origami-9781466567917","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}