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Exploring Geometric Figures

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore mathematics by participating in hands-on daily activities. Learners identify a list of different shapes and classify them by shape, size, sides and vertices. They utilize tangrams and geometric pieces to gain an...
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Area of Tangram Pieces

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Mathematicians calculate the area of a tangram piece without using formulas. They use a geometry journal to record activities during this lesson. They make a set of tangrams and use them to compute area. They use what they discover to...
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Twisted Tangrams

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Primary geometers create a picture using tangrams. In this geometry lesson, students read Grandfather Tang: A Tale Told with Tangrams, cut out their own tangrams, and choose a character from the story to make using their tangram pieces.
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Tangram

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore tangrams. In this tangrams lesson, students read Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes and then complete a WebQuest on tangrams. Students explore shapes and rotation during the WebQuest and create a new character...
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Tangrams

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students construct tangram pieces. Then they make observations and explore patterns with the pieces.
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Shape Hunt

For Teachers K - 2nd
Explore the world of shapes! After free tangram exploration and pair share time, learners describe various patterns and shapes in both the natural and designed world. They investigate the use of tangrams to create patterns and shapes.
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Geometry Practice: Loci and Transformations

For Students 9th - 12th
This resource guides young geometers to create new polygons from others of equal area, compare an image to its reflection and find errors, conduct repeated reflections, map translations, and determine center of rotation. No solutions are...
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The Shape of Things

For Students 3rd
In this tangram worksheet, students are provided with 7 geometric shapes. Students cut out the shapes to arrange them into a variety of different pictures and objects.
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Terrific Tangrams

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders construct tangrams. In this tangrams lesson, 3rd graders manipulate basic shapes to construct tangrams. Students explore how shapes can be combined in different ways and develop spatial sense.
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Tantalizing Tangrams

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore "area."  In this tangram geometry and measurement lesson plan, students arrange tangram pieces to find the area of characters presented in a story they listen to on a website.  Website information and related worksheets...
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Symmetry and Tangrams

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders build figures out of tangrams. In this symmetry lesson, 6th graders view tangrams and identify the polygons included in them. Students divide into groups, identify their tangram pieces, define the lines of symmetry, and use...
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Tantalizing Tangrams: What Are Transformations?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use the Internet to learn about transformations and tessellations.  In this geometry lesson, students use the Internet to define the meaning of reflections, translations, rotations, glide reflection and symmetry.  Students...
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Shape Up

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore differents types of triangles and quadriaterals. In this polygon lesson, students  model identify and compare two and three dimensional geometric figures. Students create tangrams and discover the difference between...
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Tantalizing Tangrams

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify polygons and develop spatial and fractional relationships and geometric concepts by using ancient Chinese puzzle of tangrams. They develop an appreciation of the folktale by identifying its elements and then writing...
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Tangram Geometry

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students listen to a story involving Tangram pieces. Students use Tangram pieces to complete shapes using an outline of a design.
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Shapes and Patterns- Kaleidoscope

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create art using shapes. In this shapes and patterns lesson, 3rd graders explore multiple ways of combining shapes to create new objects and art.
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Grandfather Tang's Story

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read the story Grandfather Tang's Story and then make their own tangrams based on the story. In this tangrams lesson plan, 3rd graders make patterns with their tangrams and follow directions their teacher gives on how to...
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Tantalizing Tangrams: Fractional Relationships

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students use tangrams to represent parts of a whole. In this fraction lesson, students use tangrams to determine fractional relationships between different pieces. Students use the AppleWorks drawing application to demonstrate the...
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Chinese Tangrams

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research the history of Chinese tangrams and complete tangram activities. In this tangram lesson, students complete Internet research to learn the history of Chinese tangrams. Students construct a set of tangrams, compare the...
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Using Tangrams for Fractions

For Students 5th
In this using tangrams for fractions worksheet, 5th graders trace the tangram puzzle, cut out and number the shapes, then answer six questions about which fraction represents the relationships of the pieces.
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Tangram Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore tangram puzzles. In this tangram fraction lesson, students read Grandfather Tang and then practice solving tangram puzzles. Students identify fractions of the pieces of the tangram puzzles and then create a design using...
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Constructing Tangrams

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders visualize and identify geometric shapes after applying transformations on a coordinate plane. In this tangrams lesson, 7th graders construct a set of tangrams and then answer extension questions related to measurement,...
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Tangram Pieces- Black Line Copy

For Students 4th - 6th
In this math worksheet, students create a seven piece tangram puzzle by coloring and cutting out the patterns on this page. There are no directions.
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Tangram Pieces

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this math learning exercise, students create a tangram puzzle by coloring and cutting out the pattern pieces for a standard seven piece tangram puzzle.