Origami is an art that consists of folding paper without using scissors or glue to obtain figures of various shapes, many of which could be considered paper sculptures.
The papers, the folds, are a dynamic resource that helps to reflect on geometric concepts. Origami is a geometric art par excellence and has a very solid theoretical basis of its own: when making a model, certain properties that respond to specific axioms of the underlying geometry are fulfilled deliberately or intuitively.
Making use of some postulates, theorems and axioms of geometry, we teach children to use origami as a strategy for learning geometry with paper folding processes, making simple figures by building straight, perpendicular and parallel lines, in such a way that we end up teaching them to build triangles, squares, etc., so that with the help of origami they can design three-dimensional figures, such as Platonic solids. Transforming a paper plane into a three-dimensional figure is a unique exercise in spatial understanding.
Origami is also important in the teaching of symmetry, as often folding, what is done on one side, is done the same on the other side.
REFERENCES:
- Martín, M. Origami, un recurso "feliz" para enseñar geometría. Aprendiendo Matemáticas. https://aprendiendomatematicas.com/origami-un-recurso-feliz-para-ensenar-geometria/
- De la Torre, H. y Prada, A. El origami como recurso didáctico para la enseñanza de la geometría. http://funes.uniandes.edu.co/992/1/31Taller.pdf
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