Alan Russell

In the history of vaudeville, there was an origami act called the troublewit. It used a single piece of paper with accordion and reverse pleats to tell a story. This piece was initially inspired by the troublewit. This piece uses a single silhouette to show multiple solids of revolution. While I use large paper to show these concepts in the classroom, I had the idea to try this on a jewelry scale. I have created paper rings which can show solids of revolution. One is shown unfolded while the others look like a bottle or a glass as the silhouette is revolved about each vertical edge of the ring. I can easily print these out and have students fold them to reinforce the concept in class. They think math jewelry is cool!