Navarra G., Pope S. (2003). Pop-up workshop
Navarra G., Pope S. (2003). Pop-up workshop. In Rogers L., Novotná J. (Eds), Effective Learning and Teaching of Mathematics from Primary to Secondary School (ELTMAPS Comenius Project). Pitagora editrice Bologna. 97-113.
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The geometry of the pop-up is presented and a possible teaching program for pop-ups is illustrated. After having explored a pop-up cube, pupils learn how to fold and to cut papers, analyze the relationship between the pop-up cube and a ‘true’ cube, plan and realize pop-up objects (cubes, cuboids, particular figures); elder pulis can find a very stimulating investigation in the pop-up world in which they find symmetries, angles, bisectors.
