Tangram Pictures

Age
5 to 14
Challenge level
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Exploring and noticing Working systematically Conjecturing and generalising Visualising and representing Reasoning, convincing and proving
Being curious Being resourceful Being resilient Being collaborative


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:
 
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Can you make each of these pictures using your seven pieces?


Tangram Pictures
Tangram Pictures
Tangram Pictures


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.