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A tangram is an ancient Chinese puzzle where you make pictures using mathematical shapes.
Make a set of tangram pieces from squared paper as shown below:
 
 
Can you make each of these pictures using your seven pieces?




You can try some more tangram puzzles in the World of Tan problems.
There are puzzles using a different set of tangram shapes in the problem Square Tangram.

Or why not try designing some Tangram pictures of your own?

If you want to learn how to make a tangram, click here.