LIA: I think one reason why the origami activity worked so well in this class was that the teacher was well prepared.

利亚：我认为折纸活动在这堂课上如此成功的原因之一是老师的准备充分。

SEB: Right. I think it would have taken me ages to prepare examples, showing each of the steps involved in making the bird.

赛博：对。我想如果是我的话会用很长时间来准备范例，展示制作这只鸟所涉及的每个步骤。

But that was a really good idea.

但那真是个好想法。

The children could see what they were aiming for – and much better for them to be able to hold something, rather than just looking at pictures.

孩子们可以看到他们的目标是什么，对他们来说，手里有实物比只看图片要好得多。

LIA: Mmm – those physical examples supported her verbal explanations really well.

利亚：嗯。那些用来示范的折纸很好地支持了她的口头解释。

SEB: It's strange that origami isn't used more widely.

赛博：奇怪的是，折纸并没有得到更广泛的应用。

Why do you think that is?

你认为这是为什么？

LIA: Well, teachers may just feel it's not that appealing to children who are used to doing everything on computers, especially boys.

利亚：嗯，老师们可能只是觉得这对习惯于在电脑上做任何事情的孩子，尤其是男孩，没有那么大的吸引力。

Even if they're aware of the benefits.

即使他们知道折纸有好处。

SEB: Oh, I don't know. It's no different to any other craft activity.

赛博：哦，我说不好。这与任何其他手工艺活动没有什么不同。

I bet it's because so many teachers are clumsy like me.

我敢打赌这是因为很多老师都像我一样笨手笨脚。

LIA: That's true – too much effort required if you're not good with your hands.

利亚：是的。如果你的手工不好的话，需要付出太多的努力。

SEB: Well, anyway, I think we should try it out in our maths teaching practice with Year 3.

赛博：嗯，无论如何，我认为我们应该在3年级的数学教学实践中尝试一下。

I can see using origami is a really engaging way of reinforcing children's knowledge of geometric shapes, like they were doing in the video, but I think it would also work really well for presenting fractions, which is coming up soon.

我看出来使用折纸是一种非常吸引人的方式，可以用来加强孩子们的几何形状的知识，就像他们在视频中所做的那样。但我认为它也可以很好地呈现分数，他们很快就会学到了。

LIA: Good idea – that's something most of the kids in that class might struggle with.

利亚：好主意。那是班上大多数孩子可能会搞不定的知识点。

Origami would also be good practice for using symmetry – but I think they did that last term.

折纸也是使用对称性的好练习。但我认为他们上学期就这样做了。

SEB: OK – well let's try and get some ideas together and plan the lesson next week.

赛博：好的，让我们一起尝试收集一些想法并设计下周的课程。

TUTOR: OK, if you could all stop …

导师：好的，如果你们都可以停下来……