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Making Maths: Walking through a playing card?



In this activity you are going to cut up a small sheet of paper (or an old playing card) and make a hole big enough to walk through. Sounds impossible? Read on..

What you need:

Scissors

Pens

Paper (try a sheet of A4 first) or small card

1) Fold the paper/ card in half lengthways

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Making Maths: Walking through a playing card?
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Making Maths: Walking through a playing card?


2) Divide the paper into 16 sections as shown by the lines below

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Making Maths: Walking through a playing card?
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Making Maths: Walking through a playing card?
3) Cut along all of the lines that are drawn
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Making Maths: Walking through a playing card?
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Making Maths: Walking through a playing card?
4) Taking care to leave the end strips intact, cut through the fold that you originally made when you folded the paper lengthways
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Making Maths: Walking through a playing card?
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Making Maths: Walking through a playing card?
5) Open out the paper and start walking!
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Making Maths: Walking through a playing card?
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Making Maths: Walking through a playing card?