Days 7 & 8: Let's summarize! Prepare your Tangram project presentation

Now it's time for summarizing. Take all what we have done and try to make a slide presentation using Impress or Prezi. You should gather in groups of 3 or 4 people. Next day you'll have to present it to all your class mates.

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Items to be considered in the presentation

1. The tangram
• Origin of the game
• Pieces of the tangram:
• Shapes and their names
• Sizes of the pieces
• Areas of the pieces
2. Nice tangram constructions with their names
3. The Tangram cousin: the Stomachion
   • Origin
   • Pieces
   • Constructions with this Tangram
4. What's your opinion about this project? Did you like it? Why?
5. Vocabulary and expressions of the project

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Your oral presentation will be evaluated according to the following rubrics.

Days 5 & 6: The Tangram Cousin. The Stomachion or The Archimedes puzzle

The Stomachion is a very ancient Tangram-like puzzle designed by Archimedes around the year 200 BC. Let's play a little bit in order to know something more about this puzzle. After that you'll have to fill in the following activities.

• More about the Archimedes puzzle

Day 4: Are you able to invent a story using 5 different tangram constructions?

Take your own tangram and try to build 5 different constructions. You don't need to use the ones of the picture, you can surf on the internet to find more. Draw the solution of the constructions on a piece of paper. Afterwards, try to invent a story in which all the created characters appear.

Day 3: The dimensions of the 7 Tangram pieces

Have you ever wondered how to compute the length of the sides of every tangram figure? To do so, first of all you should know what the Pythagoras theorem is. Watch the videos and do the following activity.

Day 2: The missing square mistery

Today we'll watch a video and we'll try to solve a mistery called 'the missing square'. After the mistery is solved, try to construct the 13 convex figures with the Tangram. Do you know what a convex figure is? If you choose any two points inside the figure, the whole line between the points must also be inside the figure.

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Activities

After the mistery is solved, try to construct the 13 convex figures with the Tangram. Do you know what a convex figure is? If you choose any two points inside the figure, the whole line between the points must also be inside the figure. Try to build each one of the following figures.

1. Take a white paper. Write down the solution to the missing square mistery. You can use a small drawing if you prefer.
2. Now, take your tangram pieces and try to build at least 2 of the convex figures below. Draw the solution on the paper. Remember that you must use all 7 tans in order to construct the shapes.

Day 1: Let's have fun with the Tangram!

Did you ever heard about tangram? Today we'll watch a little video explaining how to build one.

Later on, you should take the grid paper and try to build a tangram like the one you see in the image.

Taken from http://www.educacionplastica.net/Tangram1.htm