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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Flexagons and the Math Behind Twisted Paper
Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science
Flexagons are twisted strips of folded paper, which reveal their properties when flexed. This online course will explain what flexagons are, their history and their naming conventions. You’ll find out how to create your own flexagons and be able to share them with our global community of learners. You’ll also explore mathematical fields that provide tools to analyze flexagons, including topology and graph theory and learn about Möbius strips, Tuckermann diagrams and more.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Yossi Elran
Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Produce, create and fold Flexagons and Mobius Strips
- Explore flexagons and discover some of their unique properties
- Synthesize your knowledge and discover links between different mathematical tools.
Syllabus
- The invention of flexagons
- How to make flexagons
- Cyclic and non-cyclic flexagons
- Advanced flexagons
- Möbius strips and their surprising properties
- The math behind flexagons, Möbius strips and knotted paper bands
Issued on 29th June 2019
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