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.

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

Day 6: Let's prepare slides for the oral project presentation

It's time for summarizing. Today you'll sit in groups together and you should start designing some slides for the oral presentation. Your presentation must contain:

• Length and distance issues
• Metric system length units. 
• Conversion within the metric system.
• Imperial system vs. metric system.
• Vocabulary
• Your opinion about the project

Next day you'll present your slides to the class. To evaluate the oral presentation, we'll use the following rubrics.

Day 1: Welcome to the Maths and Beyond course!

This year you'll start a new experience: once a week, we'll explore nice and funny mathematical facts. And all these in English! Let's go!
After presentation, you'll try to answer some early questions.

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