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'Friedrich Froebel's Education by Development: The Second Part of the Pedagogics of the Kindergarten' translated by Josephine Jarvis was published by D Appleton and Company in New York in 1899. It is a translation of part of Volume 2 of 'Gesammelte pädagogische Schriften' (Collected Educational Writings), an anthology of Froebel's writings edited by Wichard Lange and published in Berlin in 1862.

A full copy of the work can be accessed online here.

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Analysis

This work contains a translation into English of Froebel's fragment 'Anleitung zum papierfalten' (Instructions for Paperfolding) - see Selected Pages below - in which Froebel:

Describes how to create a square from an irregular sheet of paper:

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Describes how to cut four squares from a rectangular sheet of paper:

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Describes a number of simple folds that can be made in the square and the mathematical properties that they demonstrate. Froebel's descriptions of the folds are often difficult to follow but I believe they culminate in the construction of The Double Blintz Basic Form, which he describes as:

And of which he says:

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The work also contains a translation of Chapter XXX of Lange which contains mention of:

Interlacing (Verschnuren)

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and what appears to be Cardboard Modelling

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Selected Pages

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