UsingOrigamiAc-vi-estoTeach

Mathema-cs
EnriqueOr-z
UniversityofCentralFlorida
2012NCTMAnnualMee-ngandExposi-on
April2528,2012

Origami Samurai Doll

Objec&ve:Studentswillconstructageometric
shape,andiden-fygeometricshapesand
frac-onalpartsofaregion.

Origami Samurai Doll

Beforewestart:
Whatgeometricideasareincludedinthisgure?

Origami Samurai Doll Cont.

Procedures:
1.Cutaroundthe
perimeterofthesquare
andmakethefoldsas
indicated.Thisisequal
toonesquareunit.

Origami Samurai Doll Cont.

2.FoldbackonthedoTed
line(cornertothecenter).
Whatshapehaveyou
made?Repeatthisfolding
foreachcorner.
AXerfoldingthefour
corners,whatshapehave
youmade?
Whatfrac-onofthesquare
unitisthisnewshape?
Howcanyouexpressthis
fraction in exponen-al
form?

1 1
= 1 = 21
2 2

Origami Samurai Doll Cont.

3.FoldforwardonthedoTed
line(onecornertothe
center).

Whatshapehaveyou

made?Repeatthisfolding
foreachcorner.
Whatfrac-onofthe
squareunitisthisnew
square?
Howcanyouexpressthis
frac-oninexponen-al
form?

1 1
= 2 = 22
4 2

Origami Samurai Doll Cont.

4.FoldbackonthedoTedline
(cornertothecenter).Placea
tapeonthebackofthesquare
(werethewordsarewriTen),
andturnthesquareover
again.
Whatfrac-onofthesquare
unitisthisnewsquare,and
expressasafrac-on?
Whatfrac-onofthesquare
unitwouldberepresentedif
youkeepfoldingyourpaper
inthismanner,andexpress
inexponen-alform?

1 1
= 3 = 23
8 2

Rela-onshipbetweenfoldsandsquares
beingformedaXerfolding:
1 1
= 1 = 21
2 2
1 1
= 2 = 22
4 2
1 1
= 3 = 23
8 2

.
.
.
1
x
=
2
2x

Origami Samurai Doll Cont.

5.Putyourngerunderoneof
thesmallsquaresandpush
outward.
Whatshapehaveyou
madebydoingthis?
6.Repeatstep5withtwomore
smallsquares.
YouhavemadeaMomotaro!
Thesquareistheheadand
resttheSamuraiou`it.

TruncatedTetrahedron
Step3:Cutaround
thecircumferenceof
thecircle.
Whatisthelengthof
thechord?
Whatistheareaof
thefoldedregion
(ap)?Hint:Lookat
thisoneaXer
workingonthenext
ques-on.

PossibleSolu-on:Step3:
a.Solveforx:

b.Areaofap:

TruncatedTetrahedron
AXerstep4.Whatshapewasformed?

PlatonicSolids
InEuclideangeometry,itisaregular,convex
polyhedron,withthesamenumberoffaces
mee-ngateachvertex.Thereare5platonicsolids:
Tetrahedron(4faces)
Cubeorhexahedron(6faces)
Octahedron(8faces)
Dodecahedron(12faces)
Icosahedron(20faces)

Icosahedron
Make20truncatedtetrahedronandorganize
themintoaicosahedron.Thefollowingisa
possiblenetfortheicosahedron:

Youmaystudentsndotherpossiblenets.
UsetheEulersformula:F+V=E+2(F=faces,V=ver-ces,E=edges)

IcosahedronImage:

12ver-ces,20faces,&30sides

TruncatedIcosahedron
ItisanArchimedeansolid,andoneof13
convex
Howmanyfaces,edges,andver-ces?
Whatwillbetheresul-ngshape?

TruncatedIcosahedronImage:
32faces,90edges,60ver-ces

TruncatedIcosahedronFootball

PossibleNetfortheTruncated
Icosahedron:

BuckminsterfullereneorCarbon60(C60)
Therstfullerene(buckyball)any
moleculecomposeden-relyofcarbon,in
theformofahollowsphere,ellipsoidor
tubetobediscovered,andthefamily's
namesake,buckminsterfullerene(C60),was
preparedin1985byRichardSmalley,
RobertCurl,JamesHeath,SeanO'Brien,
andHaroldKrotoatRiceUniversity.The
namewasanhomagetoBuckminster
Fuller,whosegeodesicdomesit
resembles.Thestructurewasalso
iden-edsomeveyearsearlierbySumio
Iijima,fromanelectronmicroscopeimage,
whereitformedthecoreofa"bucky
onion.Fullereneshavesincebeenfound
tooccurinnature.Morerecently,
fullereneshavebeendetectedinouter
space.

Thecuboctahedronintheskeletonof
itsdual,therhombicdodecahedron.

From:mathworld.wolfram.com/images/epsgif/
CuboctahedronInRhombicDodecahedron_700.gif

MakinganOrigamiCube

MakinganOrigamiCube

MakinganOpenBox
Followthestepsandmakeyourhandybox.
Youcanmakeanotheropenboxandplaceone
insidetheothertoformabox.

StepsforOpenBox
Step1wasalreadydone
foryou.
Step2and3:Whattype
oflines(orlinesegments)
these?
Step4:Isthisalineof
symmetry?
Step5:Whattypeof
triangleistheresul-ngleaf?
Step6:Whatistheresul-ng
triangle?
Steps7and8:Whatisthe
resul-ngshape?
Repeatsteps:Steps912.
Whatistheresul-ngshape?
Beforeopening.
Step13:Whatisthevolume
oftheopenbox?

ASampleManipula-veAc-vityforGeometry
AdaptedformMasunaga,D.(1998)
Workindividuallyandcompileyourresults.Makeasquareoutof
therectangularpaper.
Markanypointintheinteriorregionofthesquaresheetofpaper.

Foldallver-cestoapointmarked,asshowninthediagrambelow.

Lookatthepolygonyouhavefolded.Whatdoyouno-ce?
Describeandcompareyourpolygonwithanotherperson.

ASampleManipula-veAc-vityforGeometryCont.
Masunaga,D.(1998)
Repeattheprocesson3newsheetsofpaperbychoosing
anotherpointinsidethesquaresedge,andatthesquares
vertex.
Completethefollowingchart.
Loca'onof
Point
insidethesquare
onthesquaresedge
atthesquaresvertex

Typeof
Polygon

Scalene?

Symmetries?

ASampleManipula-veAc-vityforGeometryCont.
Masunaga,D.(1998)
Onestudentineachgroupshouldmakeanothersquare.
Othersinthegroupsplottheirpointsonthissquareusingthe
followingsymbols(9to12par-cipants):
Ifthepointyouchoseyieldedafoldedquadrilateral,plotasasmall
blackcircle().
Ifthepointyouchoseyieldedapentagon,plotthatpointasasmall
blacktriangle().
Ifthepointyouchoseyieldedahexagon,plotthatpointasasmall
blacksquare().
Ifthepointyouchoseyieldedanythingelse,plotthatpointassmall
blackplussign().

AXereveryoneinthegroupplotstheirpointsonthesquare.
Makeconjecturesabouttherela-onshipbetweenthe
loca-onofthepointschosenandthetypesofpolygons
created(markedbythesymbolsabove).

ASampleManipula-veAc-vityforGeometryCont.
Masunaga,D.(1998)
Whilemostpeoplecreateorigamimodelsofanimalsorothermirror
symmetricobjects,ProfessorKazuoHagaoftheUniversityofTsukaba
inJapanhasresearchedthegeometricalnatureoforigami.Hecall
hisscien-cstudyofthemathema-csofgeometricalfoldsorigamics,
andthisinves-ga-onistherstinasseriesofresultshehas
discovered.(p.28).
Ifapointischosenatthecenterofasquare,

thenthefourver-cesfoldedtothispointwillcreateasquarehalfthearea
oftheoriginalsquare.

Ifapointischosenanywhereintheinteriorofsquareexceptatthe
center,
thentheresultisaconcavescalenepentagonorhexagon.

Ifapointischosenatoneofthever-cesofasquare,

thentheresultisasquareonefourththeareaoftheoriginalsquare.

Ifapointischosenatthenonvertexedgeofasquare,
thentheresultispentagon.

ASampleManipula-veAc-vityforGeometryCont.Masunaga,D.(1998)
Whatdoyouno-cewhenthesymbolsfromall
ofthegroupsaredrawn?
Pointschosenintheshadedarea(
symbols)yield

Pointschoseninthewhiteregion(
symbols)yield

hexagons.

pentagons.

Pointschosenatthever-cesofthepetals
yield

squares.

WhydoesthispaTernoccur?
Extensions:
Whatwouldtheresultslooklikeifother
regularpolygonswerechosen?
Howwouldtheresultschangeifmorethan
onepointwerechosen?
Howwouldtheresultschangeifnotall
ver-ceswerefoldedtothechosenpoint?
LookuptheHagaTheoremofpaperfolding.
Howdoesitapplytothisinves-ga-on?

Convolu-on
byAzumaHideaki

byAzumaHideaki

Resources
Jeon,K.(March,2009).Mathema-cshidinginthe
netsforacube.TeachingChildrenMathemaGcs.
Wikipedia:ArchimedeanSolid:
hTp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedean_solid
Wikipedia:PlatonicSolid:
hTp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
WolframMathWorld:TruncatedIcosahedron:
hTp://mathworld.wolfram.com/
TruncatedIcosahedron.html

ResourcesCon-nued
Websites:
hTp://www.origami.as/home.html
JosephWu'sOrigamiPage.Thisisthebestrststopin
origamiwebpages.Origamigalleries,informa-on,
diagrams,andlinks.Heisapopularspeakerandwell
knownauthorityonallthingsfolding.
hTp://web.merrimack.edu/~thull/
TomHull,AssistantProfessorofMathema-csat
MerrimackCollegeistheoriginatorofmanypolyhedral
folds.Hiswebsitegiveslinkstoorigamimathpagesand
alsodepictshisownbeau-fulmodels.

ResourcesCon-nued
Masunaga,D.(1998).Asamplemanipula-ve
ac-vityforgeometry.InProfessional
Handbook,Geometry:Explora-onsand
applica-ons.McDougalLiTell(pp.2729).