Origami Birthday Gifts: A Preliminary Report
Charlene Morrow and James Morrow

Proceedings of Bridges 2024: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 413–414
Short Papers

Abstract

We describe ways to use origami to produce birthday gifts that are interesting mathematically. While these gifts are artistic and can be appreciated without mathematical understanding, (i.e., they are “stand alone” beautiful), we strive to engage the curiosity of the recipient, resulting in new mathematical understanding. The paper is a preliminary report of our project to develop one or more ways to construct an origami birthday gift for each age from 1 through 101.

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