Show times/costs/booking details: Please refer to the separate Booking Info Sheet.

Show Duration: Allow one hour total. This comprises a 45 minute base presentation with 10 minutes extra for Q&A or an additional demonstration.

Target Audiences:

Primary target audience: Secondary school students studying maths and science and their teachers.

Secondary target audience: tertiary students and adults with an interest in origami, maths or science.

Age Limit: Year 9 (Age 13) and above.

Presentation Style: A lively demonstration to a seated audience. The presenters use narration, audience challenges, paper folding demonstrations and overhead video imagery, pre-made origami models and multimedia to show the array of maths and science concepts that occur in the act of paper folding.

Presenters: Well traveled New Zealanders: Jonathan Baxter (Origami Master) and Hugh Gribben (Math Educator).

Level of Interactivity: Limited. Please note the TGOMSS is not an origami or paper-folding workshop! However, the presenters’ entertaining narration will involve the audience throughout and there will be a number of occasions where audience participation could be required (including some simple folding exercises). The presentation is designed to enlighten and enthuse both teachers and students to the possibilities of origami, and to provide the stimulus for extensive hands-on activities upon return to the classroom.

Free Teacher Reference Manual: All teachers bringing a class to the TGOMSS will receive a complimentary copy (worth $27.00) of a unique reference manual that explains in more detail topics covered in the presentation. For those not escorting a class of students to the show, additional copies will be available to purchase for $27.00 per copy or by ordering from Origami NZ, 1240 Hinemaru Street, Rotorua. 

Curriculum Links: The show has been developed in conjunction with the University of Auckland Maths Education Department and with advice and input from a range of teachers and educators.

Some of the key levels and curriculum strands covered in the teacher reference manual include: 

The 150 page reference manual provides extensive additional references, resources, material suitable for lesson plans, instructions for making the models seen in the show, puzzles and experiments suitable for use in the classroom environment.

An indicative table of contents is provided below:

DRAFT Table of Contents - TGOMSS Reference Manual

1. About Origami
2. About Paper
3. Origami in Nature
4. The Mathematics of Origami
5. More Origami Mathematics
6. Putting a Scientific Squeeze on Paper
7. Modular Origami
8. The Sonobe Unit
9. Puzzling with Paper
10. Origami in the Lab
11. Mathematical Constructions with Origami
12. Origami and the Science of Aerodynamics
13. Origami Applications in Science and Technology
14. References
15. Glossary
16. Resources (books, websites, paper supplies) and Curriculum Links

Contacts:
More detailed enquiries can be directed to the Tour Organiser: Bettina Anderson on 027 668 9449 or bettina@pukekoblue.co.nz.

Further information can also be found at www.nzamt.org.nz/origami.htm