Learning:
- abstract thinking
- critical thinking
- intuitive sense
- spacial rotation skills
- eye-hand coordination
- visual closure
- spacial relations
Invented in China approximately 200 years ago, a tangram is a puzzle created by cutting a square into seven pieces — seven geometric shapes called “tans”.
The classic rules that are applied to make tangrams include:
- All tangram pieces (or tans) must be used
- All the pieces must lay flat
- All these pieces must touch and none may overlap while forming a shape
For example:
The player is shown a target shape in outline, so that the “seams” between the composite tans are concealed.
Then the player attempts to recreate the shape using the seven pieces.
