tangrams

A collection of Chinese tangram puzzles created by Barbara Ford that create pictures of animals, people, fish, birds, and other familiar objects.

Through a combination of math games, logic puzzles, activities, and hands-on demonstrations with things like prisms, kids will explore math concepts with renewed excitement.

A young girl learns about shapes such as triangles and parallelograms from her grandfather, who teaches her using a special puzzle and a story.

A storytelling method using puzzle pieces as the focus of the story to help develop creativity, introduce new and more complex concepts, learning additional skills for memory, analysis, synthesis, and sequencing, and much more.

Presents a collection of Tangram puzzles that challenge readers to create a variety of shapes and designs using the included magnetic pieces.

Presents tangram tales in a story theater process for use by elementary teachers and teaching artists. Includes roles for students as storytellers, tangram artists, and chorus members. Also explains other tangram methods such as individual tales and original student tales.

"Spiral binding." Inspired by an ancient Chinese puzzle game, a magician assumes the forms of a bird, a fish, a swan, and more. Each image is illustrated by a rearrangement of the 7 tangram shapes.

Contains illustrations of seven hundred tangrams--shapes composed of seven geometrical pieces, including a square, a rhomboid, and five triangles, and provides a spoof of the tangram's history in running commentary.

Tells the story of three pigs who acquire some magic shapes, which they use for various purposes, some smart and some not so smart. Includes a section with related activities.