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    Folding 2D Paper Polygons

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    This document provides instructions for folding various 2D paper shapes from a single sheet of paper, including triangles, kites, parallelograms, trapezoids, rhombuses, pentagons, and hexagons. Diagrams illustrate the fold lines used to create each shape. The document also lists some lesson ideas for classroom activities using the folded shapes, such as exploring lines of symmetry, rotational symmetry, creating other polygons from isosceles triangles, calculating angles and edge lengths, and using rhombuses to represent 3D shapes.

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    Folding 2D Paper Polygons

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    This document provides instructions for folding various 2D paper shapes from a single sheet of paper, including triangles, kites, parallelograms, trapezoids, rhombuses, pentagons, and hexagons. Diagrams illustrate the fold lines used to create each shape. The document also lists some lesson ideas for classroom activities using the folded shapes, such as exploring lines of symmetry, rotational symmetry, creating other polygons from isosceles triangles, calculating angles and edge lengths, and using rhombuses to represent 3D shapes.

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    This document provides instructions for folding various 2D paper shapes from a single sheet of paper, including triangles, kites, parallelograms, trapezoids, rhombuses, pentagons, and hexagons. Diagrams illustrate the fold lines used to create each shape. The document also lists some lesson ideas for classroom activities using the folded shapes, such as exploring lines of symmetry, rotational symmetry, creating other polygons from isosceles triangles, calculating angles and edge lengths, and using rhombuses to represent 3D shapes.

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    Folding 2D Paper Polygons

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    This document provides instructions for folding various 2D paper shapes from a single sheet of paper, including triangles, kites, parallelograms, trapezoids, rhombuses, pentagons, and hexagons. Diagrams illustrate the fold lines used to create each shape. The document also lists some lesson ideas for classroom activities using the folded shapes, such as exploring lines of symmetry, rotational symmetry, creating other polygons from isosceles triangles, calculating angles and edge lengths, and using rhombuses to represent 3D shapes.

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    Folding 2D Paper Shapes

    Folding Paper Shapes

    The following diagrams are not to scale but are intended as a rough guide.
    All start with standard “A” sized paper. Red lines are fold lines. Green lines are
    the result of previous folds or where an edge of original paper lies on top of
    current shape.

    Triangle A – Isosceles

    Triangle B – Isosceles

    Triangle C - Equilateral

    J Button 2002 Page 1 of 5


    Folding 2D Paper Shapes

    Kite A

    Kite B

    Parallelogram

    Fold both flaps up.

    J Button 2002 Page 2 of 5


    Folding 2D Paper Shapes

    Trapezium A

    Trapezium B – Isosceles

    Rhombus
    A
    Fold in half to make crease. Unfold and
    fold each edge in to centre crease.
    Unfold. You should have 3 creases
    showing and 4 equal sections.

    Fold vertex A down onto crease line and repeat with vertex B, so central crease
    is a line of symmetry.

    B C
    Fold vertex C to lie
    on sloping edge (and
    A repeat with vertex
    D to obtain the
    C D
    D rhombus)

    J Button 2002 Page 3 of 5


    Folding 2D Paper Shapes

    Pentagon A

    Pentagon B – almost regular

    Top flap only


    Tuck bottom flap under same
    fold line.
    Open out on fold line.

    Hexagon

    Make the rhombus as above then fold vertices at ends of longest diagonal in to
    the central crease to complete your hexagon.

    J Button 2002 Page 4 of 5


    Folding 2D Paper Shapes

    Lesson ideas

    Use the various polygons to explore lines of symmetry.


    Don’t forget to include a square and rectangle to reinforce that rectangles only have two lines of
    symmetry.

    Use two of each polygon to explore rotational symmetry

    Use several isosceles triangle A's to produce other polygons. How many different ones can you make
    and name.
    Create a flow diagram / decision tree to categorise each of the polygons.

    Calculate the angles of each polygon.

    Calculate the edge lengths of each polygon.

    What dimension paper would you need to start with so that all of the polygons had the same area?

    Use 3 of the rhombus shape to create a representation of a cube.


    What would the volume of the cube be?

    Explore various impossible geometry figures made using the rhombus

    http://www.origomath.com/media/pdf/samples_books/geo/geo_paperpolygons_sample.pdf

    J Button 2002 Page 5 of 5

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