Curated OER
Tangram Puzzles
Students explore, experience and study recognizing and applying flips (reflections), slides (translations), and turns (rotations). They utilize spatial memory and spatial visualization skills to figure out what figures look like when...
Curated OER
Grandfather Tang's Story
Students construct tangram patters. For this geometry lesson, students read the book Grandfather Tang's Story and visit various websites to practice covering figures with tangrams. Students attempt to construct animal shapes using puzzles.
Curated OER
Tangram Patterns
In this artistic instructional activity, students experience and practice working with tangram pieces to create unique puzzles and shapes.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Tangram Challenges
Students explore geometric concepts by working with Tangram Puzzles. In this Tangram challenge lesson plan, students use problem-solving tasks that involve physical manipulatives. Students select a picture and use all seven pieces of the...
Curated OER
Ge-Oh Boy, Oh Boy
Young scholars listen to the book, Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt and discuss the art of quilting. They examine various symmetrical sewing designs, and identify reflection pieces, slides, and flips.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Tangrams
Click on the tangram frame to start. Use the white tangram pieces to make the picture shown on the upper right.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Game Tantaliser Tantrix Discoveries
This game combines tangrams and pattern recognition to offer you a challenge. The page has a "Printable page" link if you want to print it out to help you work with the problem.