Objective: TLW investigate tangrams and learn that tangrams were used by the Chinese people to illustrate characters of stories that were told. TLW review the terms: slide, flip , turn (slide, rotation, translation). TLW use tangram shapes to create a design and write a story about the shape.
Grandfather
Tang’s Story online:
http://www.teachnet-lab.org/ps101/grandfather.htm
Sample Tangram designs: http://tangrams.ca/puzzles/puzzles.htm
Directions for making your own tangrams: http://mathforum.org/trscavo/tangrams/construct.html
Thinking Fountain’s Tans: http://www.thinkingfountain.org/t/tans/tans.html
Enchanted
Minds Tangrams- Interactive Tangram, click
on the button.
http://www.enchantedmind.com/puzzles/tangram/tangram.html
Tangram Links: http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/IFC/TanStanFolder/TanStanTangramLinks.htm
A tangram movie about football: http://www.tygh.co.uk/tan/football.html
Enchanted
Learning Tangrams:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/chinesenewyear/tangram/
A Story with tangrams: http://www.tygh.co.uk/tan/tan.htm
Interactive Tangram applet: http://www.mrhall.org/math/tangram/tangram.htm
Tangram Games from PBS: http://pbskids.org/sagwa/games/tangrams/