When you have eight different shades of paper and fold four differently colored sheets together at a time, how many unique squares can you create? Charlene Morrow poses that question as she stands in ...

The fourth graders couldn’t take their eyes off their math papers. Sure, they were folding them into foxes instead of solving problems, but with each crease came a level of concentration and ...

A hidden mathematical connection between origami and structural engineering is opening a new path for designing complex, ...

Sara Goheen, a junior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, often folds placemats or straw wrappers into interesting shapes while she’s waiting at a restaurant for the food to arrive. “It’s ...