Workshops für Schulklassen
During the goMATH exhibition from 12 to 23 May 2025, mathematics workshops will be offered to school classes that have taken part in the Origami Challenge.
In the one-hour workshops, pupils work in small groups on a mathematical problem in a fun way. The level of difficulty is adapted to the respective level of knowledge of the class. The content is suitable for classes from lower secondary level upwards. The workshops are free of charge and take place on the ETH Centre campus from Monday to Friday.
Workshop times: 9.00–10.00, 10.30–11.30, 13.30–14.30
The link to the registration form will be sent directly to all classes by the end of February 2025.
Origami workshops
The goMATH 2025 programme is dedicated to the topic Origami – folded mathematics. To mark the occasion, there will be special workshops: Robert Geretschläger will lead the workshops in the first week. Geretschläger is a mathematician, author and editor of numerous non-fiction books on mathematics, mainly on the subject of competitive mathematics, but also on the geometry of paper folding. Cécile Kunz will lead the workshops in the second week. She is a Master's student in mathematics and has dedicated her Bachelor's thesis to the subject of origami.
More workshop topics
The Bridges of Königsberg
Seven bridges connect the three districts of Königsberg, which are separated by a river. Is there a path that crosses each bridge exactly once to return to the starting point?
Using models, this problem from graph theory is played out in abstract form and the question is clarified under which conditions a solution exists.
How we count. What counts?
If you look at the clock late at night, is it 22:00 or 10 past 10 p.m.? If you take a four-hour flight from Zurich to Oslo at 21:00, will you arrive at 1.00 a.m. or 25:00?
The workshop introduces the topic of ‘modular arithmetic’. Using describable prisms and multiplication tables, we look for groups of numbers with special properties.
