Search All of the Math Forum:
Views expressed in these public forums are not endorsed by
Drexel University or The Math Forum.
|
|
GS Chandy
Posts:
4,348
From:
Hyderabad, Mumbai/Bangalore, India
Registered:
9/29/05
|
|
Re: "teaching fractions with paper folding"
Posted:
Jan 7, 2013 1:54 PM
|
|
Jonathan Crabtree posted Jan 7, 2013 12:07 PM:
> Re: "teaching fractions with paper folding"
>
> Multiply is from the Latin multiplicare. Plicare is
> Latin for fold. Multi means many.
>
> This is also how we get the word manifold, as in
> twofold, threefold, fourfold and manifold increase.
>
> Whether folding or unfolding, complex or simplex, the
> folding idea as a model has been around for a tad
> moer than 25 years now.
>
> "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to
> repeat it."
>
> Jonathan Crabtree
> P.S. Crumple paper and you multiply it. Why? You find
> it in creases.
>
Interesting and useful! I was vaguely 'aware' of 'plicare' and 'multi' - but I had never put them together!
And your "P.S." quip is really neat.
Thanks very much!
GSC
|
|
|
|
