Fold and cut part 3

We decided to do one more fold and cut project tonight. Our first two are here:

Fold and Cut project #1

Fold and cut project #2

Tonight we decided to try to fold and cut some of the letters that Katie Steckles demonstrated at the end of the Numberphile video. My older son chose the letter ‘B’ and my younger son chose the letter ‘L’. We didn’t quite get the ‘L’ right, but overall both letters were a great challenge.

Here’s my older son and ‘B’:

and here here’s my younger son with ‘L’:

Feels like we could do projects like these for a long time! For some more amazing one cut shapes, check out Erik Demaine’s MoMath lecture (with the one cut shapes starting around 2:30 in the video below): (h/t to Patrick Honner for this amazing lecture by Demaine, btw)

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