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Paper Cups
This Operational Research (OR) Society resource invites students to analyse processes and efficiencies through a series of group challenges.
In the first activity students are asked to produce as many cups as possible by folding paper. Students are also asked to calculate the mean, variance and standard...
Paper engineering, written to help resource the growing interest in this area in schools, can be used to support designing and making, or problem solving.
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Illustrates in dynamic form ten basic mechanisms which are used in making pop-up books. Each of the ten basic mechanisms is illustrated by a working model which can be cut out and made. When finished it can be glued...
This book contains over 175 projects with step-by-step photographs, showing in detail how to make a variety of paper creations.
Paper Helicopters - Mathematics
This resource, aimed at primary level, is linked to the science Paper Helicopters resource. It uses the paper helicopter investigation to provide mathematical activity ideas looking at: shapes, lines and angles found in the helicopter template, perimeter and area, average drop time, ratio and problem solving. The...
Paper Helicopters - Science
This resource, aimed at primary level, links to the topic of forces. Students use a template to make paper spinners, and then investigate how fast they fall when different variables such as length of rotor blade, type of paper or number of paper clips are changed. The resource contains notes on running the activity...
Paper Imagination
This resource, from the Maths Careers website, uses paper folding to investigate the platonic solids and was created in conjunction with More Maths Grads and the University of Leeds.
This activity was designed to be run with Key Stage 3 students and involves constructing several of the platonic solids using...
Provides patterns for paper jungle animals to copy, cut, and fold, along with information about the creatures and a fold-out backdrop
Paper Magic: Folding Polygons
This resource contains step by step illustrated instructions of how to fold a variety of polygons, using A-size paper. The polygons featured include a square, an equilateral triangle, an isosceles triangle, kites, rhombi, a regular pentagon, a regular hexagon and a regular octagon. There are also investigations on...
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