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Part One

Part One :'Frobel's Leben und erstem Streben. Autobiographie und kleinere Schriften' (Froebel's life and first striving. Autobiography and smaller writings)

This work was translated into English by Josephine Jarvis and published as 'Friedrich Froebel's Pedagogics of the Kindergarten' by D Appleton and Company, New York in 1895. No references to paper folding were found in this translation.

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Part Two

Part Two: 'Die Padagogik des Kindergartens' contains a section about paperfolding titled 'Anleitung zum Papierfalten. Ein Bruchstück. Eine entwickelnd-erziehende und unterhaltend-belehrende Kinderbeschäftigung für Kinder von 5 bis 7 Jahren und darüber, unter eingehender Mitwirkung von leitenden Erwachsenen'

This work was translated into English by Josephine Jarvis as 'Education by Development: The Second Part of the Pedagogics of the Kindergarten',and published by D Appleton and Company in New York in 1899. The section about paperfolding was translated as 'Employment of Children - Guide to Paperfolding - A Fragment'.

In this fragment, Froebel first describes how to create a square from any irregular sheet of paper then how to fold and cut four squares from a single rectangular sheet of machine made paper. He then describes a number of simple folds that can be made in the square and the mathematical properties that they demonstrate.There are no references to any particular paperfolding designs. This chapter can be found on pages 88-97 of the book here.

In his article 'Falling into Disuse: the rise and fall of Froebelian mathematical folding within British kindergartens' (See full article) Michael Freidman dates this fragment to 1850.