Talk:Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding

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Did you know... that the book Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding was inspired by one of the Froebel gifts for kindergarten children?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:01, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the book Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding was inspired by one of the Froebel gifts to kindergarten children? Source: JSTOR 3603999: "An attempt to develop Kindergarten Gift No. VIII into a useful course of geometry"

Reviewed: Leal Douglas

Created by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 19:35, 16 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Finally a math-related hook I can understand! Intriguing hook and everything else checks out. Gatoclass (talk) 21:34, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Illustrations[edit]

This article could be illustrated both with the book's title page and, since it's out of copyright, by one or more of the book's inline figures (say, pages 9 and 17 of the Madras edition). Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:41, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]