Practicing math while making folding puzzles.
Duration: from 5 minutes Number of players: any Material: folding papers Link: https://pen-en-pion.nl/en/games-in-maths-class/ |
Short description
Fold fun is one of the games included in the MathPlay’s package. This company focuses on making maths education insightful and fun, lowering the threshold for maths lessons.
This is a packet of 50 folding puzzles. The task is to fold the papers so that the green areas are on one side and the blue areas on the other.
Educational Value
- Spatial understanding – to understand how to fold to get one side blue and the other side green.
- Working with and naming mathematical lines.
Recommendation for use
Fold fun consists of 50 folding papers from level 1 to level 50. You can use it in class or as a relaxing activity during break. Downside is that if you’ve folded a paper, the puzzle is solved and you can not use the paper again.
MathPlay has a YouTube channel where he explains the folding puzzle. The channel provides extra help and explanation: https://youtu.be/WNyvXlA3ESU?si=e6v3ZE1zYb4qtXqi
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