WI State Standards:
- AA Cr10h
Investigate: Engage in critical thinking, problem solving,and research through elements and principles of art and design, studiopractices and processes.
(aesthetics / problem solving) - AA Cr11h
Plan: Formulate original concepts by practice, experimentation, and revision. (planning/experimentation) - AA Cr12h
Make: Create works of art that introduce students to media, care of tools, and basic craftsmanship skills.
(skills)
Learning objectives
- 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.
