. The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine. to make a background of real ex-periences. It is interesting to the child in subtractingto cut down to the center and so hold one quarter outof sight. It is not necessary to extend ths practicefurther than eighths and sixteenths on the square. (Thirds and ninths may be illustrated with the fifthgift. It is well to vary materials in sothat the child will gradually see the fraction is notdependent upon the material or form.) With these few examples, I leave the teacher to beinventive herself in using paper-folding in the elemen-tary grades to dev
. The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine. to make a background of real ex-periences. It is interesting to the child in subtractingto cut down to the center and so hold one quarter outof sight. It is not necessary to extend ths practicefurther than eighths and sixteenths on the square. (Thirds and ninths may be illustrated with the fifthgift. It is well to vary materials in sothat the child will gradually see the fraction is notdependent upon the material or form.) With these few examples, I leave the teacher to beinventive herself in using paper-folding in the elemen-tary grades to develop and impress mathematical con-cepts even up to the sixth or seventh year of school. 2. A second series of folds of which I will speak,leaving the teacher in a rural school to apply it towhatever children seem ready to enjoy it, is the fold-ing of the plain forms from both square and circle.(These forms are the forms of knowledge.) The simplest folds give the oblong or rectangle andthe triangle as : ,7; DBLDNU adLOAG Two oblongs. Two triangles, so THE KINDERGARTEN-PRIMARY MAGAZINE
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