Schedule

I've been teaching a course called "Origami in Math and Education" for my university's Masters program for in-service math teachers (middle- and high-school) for many years now. Just recently I taught this course online, advertising it on social media in case anyone else wanted to take it. To my surprise, several people from the origami and math communities signed up for the course. As a result, the students in the class ranged from people with Ph.D.s in math to high-school math teachers to math-interested artists. The interactions between these groups gave the course a dynamic and intensity that I had not encountered before. In this presentation and discussion, I will relate some stories from this class, the new things I learned from it, and some of the excellent teaching projects that emerged from the students' work.

In this lecture, I will talk about methods for designing a model within a short time frame (under 15 minutes), and why learning how to do so can be helpful for building fundamental designing skills.

This lecture will introduce the research on curved origami that is being undertaken at the University of Tsukuba. It includes curved origami simulation, the relationship between fold lines and volume of pillow boxes, and curved origami modeling.

This model is much easier than it looks, with a pleat to create the stripe and reverse folds to have all of the tiger parts fall into place. Careful folding is needed to follow some of the landmarks, giving this an "intermediate" level designation. Diagrams for this can be found in the book Origami Menagerie:
https://origamiusa.org/catalog/products/origami-menagerie-0