THE FOLDS AND THE MOON
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What do we want to know?
We want to know how many folds we need to make on a sheet of paper in order to get to the moon. The distance from the earth to the moon is 384,400 km.
What have we done?
-We took a sheet of DN4 paper and looked for when it was its thickness, it was 0.2 mm.
-We folded it 1 time, it came out 0.4 mm, and so we saw that every time we folded it we doubled its value.
- We opened a spreadsheet and in one of the columns we put the times we folded, in the next the thickness in mm in the third the thickness in meters and in the last the thickness of the km, and we achieved this by dividing the columns of meters and kilometers per 1000.
-Finally we searched the internet what is the distance from the Earth to the Moon, and we saw what was the figure that most resembled the result of our spreadsheet.
-We were able to see that with 41 folds you can reach the Moon.
Carla Basto, Gina Borrell, Clàudia Capdevila i Aleix Gil
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