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Brainstorm! What can you do with paper?

Add your ideas to the jamboard:

https://bit.ly/do-with-paper

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CAMI Norms

Questions are more important than answers, especially at the beginning.

Mistakes are valuable.

Respect everyone’s input.

Be careful about sharing answers.

This is a safe place not to know.

Questions are more important than answers, especially at the beginning - We work together to pose questions as part of our circle. We should also ask ourselves along the way: Does this make sense? Why does this work? What else do I want to know?

Mistakes are valuable - We learn through struggle and making mistakes. (Productive struggle is useful for the learning process.) If you don’t make a mistake - don’t worry, that’s ok. We share our mistakes and even if you don’t make one this time, you’ll be able to learn from someone else’s.

Respect everyone’s input - Remember that we have something to learn from everyone else. Remember that everyone works at a different pace. Take some time to hear another person’s take on a problem.

Be careful about sharing answers - You may feel tempted to teach others in your group. Fight it! We don’t mean you should ignore people, but don’t step on someone else’s aha moment.

At a recent CAMI meeting, we asked folks what about our community norms has helped them learn and kept them coming and one of them said This is a safe place not to know which expresses these other norms in just 8 words.

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First Exploration

1. Cut the corners out of a piece of paper to make a plus like this:

2. Tape together two opposite ends to make a loop:

3. Tape together the other two ends on the other side to make a second loop.

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Notice and Wonder

I notice…

One loop is bigger than the other, which is strange but obvious that it would happen.
It’s like a paper chain
The two loops are perpendicular to each other.
I think it’s two-sided. I think an ant could travel inside one loop and outside the other.

I wonder…

I wonder how this similar or dissimilar to a Möbius strip?
Why do we need several of these things?
What will we do with the cut out corners?
What would happen if I taped the loops in the same direction?

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First Exploration Continued

4. Draw a “road” along each loop. Use a marker and/or draw it on both sides.

5. You’re going to cut your creation along the roads, first straight along one road and then straight along the other… but WAIT!

6. Think and make a prediction about what will happen. Write it down before you cut along the roads. (Don’t share it yet.)

7. Okay, go ahead and cut along the roads. Make sure you continue straight through the intersection (don’t turn).

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Directions to Explore…

What are the possibilities there are in making the object? What variations can we make in the original figure?

Padlet to share our explorations: