When you have eight different shades of paper and fold four differently colored sheets together at a time, how many unique squares can you create? Charlene Morrow poses that question as she stands in ...

Say the words 'summer school' and fun does not always come to mind, but like so many things these days summer school looks a lot different. Coppell High School's 9th-grade campus is teaching ...

Barbara Pearl has a healthy addiction to paper. It’s not that she excessively writes on it or uses it for printing, sketching and cutting. Instead, she manipulates it into boats, flowers, cranes, ...

During my 18 years in urban education, I taught math to elementary and middle school students. I also worked as a district school improvement coordinator and math director. As a result, I’ve spent a ...

APPLETON - The rose reaching upward toward a light was born of a single uncut square of paper. Its petals, delicately wrapped into each other, compose a piece that is beautiful in appearance and ...

The fourth graders couldn’t take their eyes off their math papers. Sure, they were folding them into foxes instead of solving problems, but with each crease came a level of concentration and ...

July 13, Wednesday, 1 p.m. — Origami artist Robert J. Lang of Alamo, Calif., will give this year’s MathFest talk on “From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami.” This free ...

creativity work hand in hand. Lang has taken his lifelong hobby of origami, and his professional expertise in science and engineering, and combined them in a career that spans books, seminars and an ...

SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) - As soon as you walk through the door, it’s clear that paper is an important part of the household: Examples of 11-year-old Justin Fossum’s origami are visible everywhere. And it ...

Origami splash, by Erik and Martin Demaine Black Man, by Eric Joisel (from the collection of Robert Lang) David Huffman, with one of his paper foldings, in 1978. “Origami: Art + Mathematics,” an ...

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