Tangram Puzzles: Make One For Your Kids
Instructor Lisa Ginet explains how to make tangram puzzles, an ancient Chinese game made from seven shapes cut from a square. Over 6500 different arrangements can be made from these seven simple shapes! Learn more about tangrams and their history.
Build Tangram Shapes with Do-It-Yourself Puzzles
Get more ideas for using tangram puzzles with children.
Why is this important?
Students often enjoy putting tangrams together to make forms that represent people or animals. Prompting students to match arrangements in silhouette form (that is, without the outline of each shape shown) is a good way for them to reinforce their spatial reasoning skills.
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