Didactics and Research of Folding

Nick wrote:
Do you have any visuals of this Dennis? It sounds interestig, but I can't picture it...

Hi Nick, I don't at the moment, but I could make some.(but it'll be a couple of weeks away before I can get around to it!)

Looks like all of this would be useful on the ODB.
I'm currently upgrading the underlying system to be considerably more wiki-like and the whole thing would be searchable.
If there are specific search criteria or fields that you'd like, just ask and I'll add them now.

Dennis

This is something I wrote a couple of years ago, but this is the ideal place to discuss it properly. Some time ago, I was amusing some work colleagues with various little gems of origami. Being of a problem-finding, puzzle-solving type of environment, one of them actually asked, “Can you fold someth...

There are a couple of proofs that can be demonstrated using origami, but I've found it useful it as a method of teaching HOW to prove something. In my case I have shown Haga's theorem 'If you fold a bottom corner of a square onto the centre point of the top edge, the bottom edge of the square inters...