Fall 2012 MTCA Workshop #2

Post date: Oct 25, 2012 3:09:58 PM

FOLDING POLYGONS

Presented by

Altha Rodin

Department of Mathematics

The University of Texas at Austin

October 24, 2012

NOA 1.116

We investigated some properties of angles that appear when a long thin strip of paper is folded successively following a particular pattern and tried to determine what polygons can be folded from the resulting strip of paper. The MTCA Fall Workshop Challenge problem was posed and can be found in the attached handout. You need not have attended the session to participate.