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tanGram

Tangram is a 1000 year old Chinese shape puzzle. There are two ways 3 6 4
to make shapes with tangram. One way is to try to duplicate the shape 5 2

from a simple outline shape and another way is to imagine and create 7
new designs. There are different kinds of tangrams. 1

In the figure given alongside, there are 7 pieces formed by cutting a square. There are
five triangles (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) and 2 quadrilaterals (6 and 7).

We can make different figures by arranging these pieces.

Look at the following figures.
Think Tank Critical Thinking
Create some shapes
using the pieces of
the circular tangram
Swan Human Bird Dog given alongside.

practice time 7c

1. Write the names of the following figures.

(a) (b) (c) (d)

2. Count and write the number of triangles for each of the following figures.

(a) (b) (c)

3. Count and write the number of rectangles for each of the following figures.

(a) (b) (c)

Teacher’s Encourage the students to show their imagination to form figures of things, birds, animals and people.
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