Folding Paper Activity

How high will a piece of paper get if you fold it 3 times in half? 7? 10? 20? How long until you get to space??

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Early grades: Ask the question I did, wonder, try it, wonder more, and then to the site...wonder before you click each time.

Middle grades:  Ask the question I did, wonder, try it, wonder more, see if you can create an actual equation for the height vs times folded..and then to the site...wonder before you click each time.  Ask then, how big would the original sheet have to be to be able to stand on the stack after X folds?

High Grades:  Ask the question I did, wonder, try, wonder more, ask why type of relation would be best to model this type of growth?  How would you change the question so it grew as linear, quadratic (would be fun to explore this), sinusoidal, etc, functions? and then to the site...wonder before you click each time...Ask then, how big would the original sheet have to be to be able to stand on the stack after X folds?