Teaching Paper Arts to Kids - Online Class for Teachers with Paula Krieg (Online)

Schedule: 
Aug 24, 2020: 10:00am - 12:00pm (ET);  
Aug 25, 2020: 10:00am - 12:00pm (ET)

In this two-day course for grade school teachers, participants will learn paper folding techniques while using the language of math. This workshops is for teachers who want to normalize terms such as isosceles right triangle, bisecting an angle, similar and congruent shapes, perpendicular lines, squares, triangles, pentagons, hexagons, octagons, symmetry, lines of symmetry, scale and slope. This class will emphasize how to utilize paper arts to teach math.

This course will go over the following structures: Shape construction, V-pleats, paper frame/ fortune teller, rectangular origami box, origami pocket and simple pop-ups, accompanied by discussion relating the steps of construction to math-talk.

Location/Venue: Online with Center for the Book Arts
For more info & pictures: https://tinyurl.com/y5nw4dob
Cost/Fee: Pay as you wish but suggested donation of $50
Material/Studio fee: N/A

Their workshop calendar: https://centerforbookarts.org/online-learning/

Instructor and bio: Paula Krieg has thirty years collaborating with teachers to create projects for the classroom, 2019 and 2020 exhibited math/art work in Bridges Math/Art exhibition, taught workshops at CBA, Museum of Mathematics, Cooper Hewitt Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dieu Donne. Has presented at various conferences, including MOVES 2019, Math Unfolded: The Mathematical Art of Origami. Coauthored Scholastic’s 25 Totally Terrific Social Studies Activities; work has been featured in Helen Hiebert’s book, Paper Illuminated, Lark’s Making Books and Journals, and Diane Maurer-Mathison’s book, The Art and Craft of Handmade Cards.