ABSTRACT
This paper describes our ten-year journey to foster creativity and imagination through the use of origami in the teaching of geometry. Over the years in our geometry classes in the Faculty of Education at the Universitat Auto`noma de Barcelona (UAB), we became aware that many people seem to suffer from math phobia and believe they cannot do mathematics. We often notice that some students have serious difficulties with mathematics, but in other fields are intelligent and productive. Fortunately, resources exist for working with these individuals to overcome their math anxiety [Adams 93; Caine and Caine 97, Chapter 5]. Moreover, specifically in the case of geometry teaching and learning, it is striking that even though human perception is so powerful from the first months of life (or even days) in recognizing and identifying shapes [Mehler and Dupoux 94], so many errors are made in identifying and classifying simple geometrical figures.
