This week I’m going to be giving a talk at the math camp at Williams college. The talk this year is going to be based on an amazing paper cutting project that I learned from James Tanton’s book Solve This:
As that tweet from 2016 suggests, we’ve looked at these paper cutting ideas before:
An Absolutely Mind-Blowing project from James Tanton
Today I had both kids try out the project with two shapes. One purpose of today’s project was to remind me of the rough paper size we need to do this project (folding an 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet of paper into thirds – so roughly 3×11 inch strip – worked pretty well). But I was also interested to see what the kids thought of the shapes because the results are so surprising!
Also, the snoring in the background is our dog – lol 🙂
(1) Older son shape 1:
(2) Older son shape 2:
(3) Older son shape 3:
(4) Older son shape 4:
Btw – Solve This is an amazing book. I see several used copies on Amazon right now, and I can’t recommend it enough!
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