Erik Demaine stood out from the rest of the origamists featured in the documentary. He is a fun-loving, ferociously smart adult who was homeschooled by his father, entered college very early and is now teaching at MIT and studying the applications of origami folding to protein structure. The way he explains truly complex topics is simple and straightforward so that anyone can understand.
Recently I discovered that he posted a number of his lectures online complete with video of his talks, lecture notes, slides, and problem sets. If you have an advanced middle or high schooler at home who loves math and/or origami and is inspired by other homeschoolers’ successes, then working through a course like “Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra” might be a wonderful experience! Even if your child does not understand the bulk of the lectures, he could at least watch the introductory lecture and start to understand the topics, and enjoy watching Erik explain.
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