pattern folding tips

[bobu]

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- hi,

anyone has a good tips for pattern folding part. what should we look for?

thanks

 

[UCB05]

Always fold into the page.

 

[JNew]

Always fold into the page.

Could you explain what you mean by that?

 

[Baylor2011]

I think he means fold the sides of the figure down INTO the page...try and think of the page in 3d. You can either pull the sides up toward your face, or push them down INTO the paper.

I could be wrong though, haha 🙂

 

[UCB05]

When you look at the flat pattern you may think that you can fold it into the page so that what you see is on the outside, or you may fold it out of the page, to get the mirror of that. Folding it out of the page is incorrect, as what you're now looking at is the underside of the pattern facing outside. If it helps, imagine you're looking at an actual piece of foldable paper. What you see is the top side, and what's underneath is just white. Or black. Or some rainbow swirly pattern. If you fold in, you get a proper shape with patterns outside. If you fold out, all you get is something bad.

 

[A6project]

When you look at the flat pattern you may think that you can fold it into the page so that what you see is on the outside, or you may fold it out of the page, to get the mirror of that. Folding it out of the page is incorrect, as what you're now looking at is the underside of the pattern facing outside. If it helps, imagine you're looking at an actual piece of foldable paper. What you see is the top side, and what's underneath is just white. Or black. Or some rainbow swirly pattern. If you fold in, you get a proper shape with patterns outside. If you fold out, all you get is something bad.

Any other tips? some ways to figure it out faster??? anyone?

 

[flyingforever]

Draw 4x4 grid on the paper and dot plot it as you unfold in your brain.

 

[A6project]

dot plot? could you elaborate more on that plz? pattern folding is my weakness on PAT

 

[jirotrom]

Draw 4x4 grid on the paper and dot plot it as you unfold in your brain.

i think he is talking about pattern folding not hole punching

 

[flyingforever]

i think he is talking about pattern folding not hole punching

Oops my bad.

 

[zeuscorey2]

I always look through the answer choices and see which ones I can easily eliminate by folding just a few sides which will get you to the right answer for most. For example, say there is a rectangle with a triangle shaded on 1 face and another completely shaded face, one fold may show you that the triangle points toward the shaded side so then yo can eliminate all the choices without the arrow pointing to that side. Only a few won't allow you to proceed this way and then I would just spend a little more time to mentally fold it more, but I would rarely ever fold the entire thing in my head.

 

[zeuscorey2]

**shouldn't have said "always", if its something as simple as a square you can usually just look and tell which is the answer. Or if it has 1 distinctly shaped side you can look for that among the answers.