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Tan Grams

Tangrams are an ancient Chinese puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes called tans that can be arranged to form different geometric figures. The seven pieces include two large right triangles, one medium right triangle, two small right triangles, one square, and one parallelogram. Playing with tangrams helps children develop spatial and pattern recognition skills while learning about shapes. Puzzles involve recreating an outlined target shape using just the seven tans without seeing where each piece is placed.

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Tan Grams

Tangrams are an ancient Chinese puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes called tans that can be arranged to form different geometric figures. The seven pieces include two large right triangles, one medium right triangle, two small right triangles, one square, and one parallelogram. Playing with tangrams helps children develop spatial and pattern recognition skills while learning about shapes. Puzzles involve recreating an outlined target shape using just the seven tans without seeing where each piece is placed.

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Tangrams

SICA Sr Sec
School
Sch. 78

A Presentation by: Submitted to:


Sabhya Goyal GK Sir
Xth D
HOD (Mathematics)
10427
What are Tangrams?
• Tangrams are an ancient set of Chinese moving puzzle pieces.
• It consists of seven flat polygons, called tans, which are put together
to form shapes.
• The literal meaning of Tangram is “seven boards of skill”.
• These seven simple shapes or “Tans” come together to form
hundreds of different figures with multiple solutions.
The Creativity inducing Art
History
• There is an old tradition of dissection amusements in China
which likely played a role in its inspiration.
• It is believed that the puzzle was originally introduced in a
book titled Ch'i chi'iao t'u which was already being reported
as lost in 1815 by Shan-chiao in his book ”New Figures of
the Tangram”.
• Tangrams were first introduced to the German public by
industrialist Friedrich Adolf Richter around 1891. The sets
were made out of stone or false earthenware, and marketed
under the name "The Anchor Puzzle“.
Pieces
• Choosing a unit of measurement so that the seven pieces can
be assembled to form a square of side one unit and having area
one square unit, the seven pieces are:
• 2 large right triangles (hypotenuse 1, sides √2/2, area 1/4)
• 1 medium right triangle (hypotenuse √2/2, sides 1/2, area 1/8)
• 2 small right triangles (hypotenuse 1/2, sides √2/4, area 1/16)
• 1 square (sides √2/4, area 1/8)
• 1 parallelogram (sides of 1/2 and √2/4, height of 1/4, area 1/8)
Why Tangrams?
It is known that the kids who practice it, are helped to:
• classify shapes
• develop positive feelings about geometry
• gain a stronger grasp of spatial relationships
• develop an understanding of how geometric shapes can be decomposed
• hone spatial rotation skills
• acquire a precise vocabulary for manipulating shapes (e.g., “flip,” “rotate”)
• learn the meaning of congruence
Ways of playing with Tangrams

• The simplest way is to let kids create their own complex shapes. But traditionally, tangrams
are treated as puzzles.
• The player is shown a target shape in outline, so that the “seams” between the composite
tans are concealed. Then the player attempts to recreate the shape using the seven pieces.
• In essence, it’s an exercise similar to structured block play, where the challenge is to create
an exact copy of a structure depicted in a diagram. But there’s a key difference.
• In structured block play, the diagram provides you with explicit, visual information about
where each piece goes. In a tangram puzzle, you’re left to figure that our for yourself.
Sources
• https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Tangrams
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangram
• http://parentingscience.com/tangrams-for-kids/
• https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/T/Tangrams.html
• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tangram

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