GXWeb Dragons, Folds and Fractions
Channel: Compass Learning Technologies
Date: 24/06/2022

Who would have thought that there would be so much beautiful and rich mathematics in the simple act of folding a piece of paper?

Here we explore the Dragon Curve Fractal and its relation to the PaperFold Sequence, using dynamic models constructed with the wonderful, free, browser-based GXWeb software from Saltire Software.

Along the way, we take some mathematical excursions past fractions hidden in the folds, continued fractions and continued logarithms to see just some of the unexpected connections with our simple folded page.

https://compasstech.com.au/gxwdragon/index.html

To see how easily you can build your own Dragon Curve models, visit

https://youtu.be/_A_vU9YGakw

and

https://youtu.be/DWyE2mh3E30

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GXWeb Dragons, Folds and Fractions

0:00 - 4:30: Introducing the Dragon Curve
4:30 - 7:35: Finding the Points Hidden in a Fold
7:35 - 11:40: GXWeb Dragon Fold Explorer
11:40 - 21:00: Dragons, (Continued) Fractions and Folds
21:05 - 29:00: Dragons, PaperFolds and More Hidden Fractions
29:00 - 32:36: (Binary) Continued Logarithms and PaperFolds
32:36 - 34:36: Build Your Own Dragon Curves with GXWeb

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