ABSTRACT
In Israel, the Origametria program is taught in 70 Jewish, Arab, and Christian schools. The IOC has a team of 40 teachers who are trained to teach the program. Thus, each week, about 10,000 school students around the country study Origametria as part of their curriculum. In 2008, after several years of scrutiny, the Israeli Ministry of Education formally approved the program. Soon, a pilot course of Origametria will begin in a college of teacher training. If successful, courses will be made more widely available. At present, the program is taught to elementary school students (grades one through six), but there are plans to expand it into high schools.
In 1992, the IOC began to teach an origami program with the purpose of developing learning skills. The program was designed to enhance selfesteem and a sense of accomplishment, while developing learning skills such as motor skills, spatial perception, logical and sequential thinking, handeye coordination, focusing and concentration, aesthetics, three-dimensional perception, and principles of basic geometry.
