The Tangram Magician

Based on the Chinese puzzle game, this story follows a magician's imagination that leads to the changes in shapes of the puzzles and story by constant rearrangement of the pieces of stickers.

The Tangram is an ancient Chinese puzzle that uses seven geometric pieces to create a multitude of images. A story and a puzzle in one, this book tells the tale of a shape-changing magician and includes seven colourful foam shapes that make up each of the illustrations. Children can follow along with the story or create wonderful new designs of their own. Tangram Magician was previously published by Harry Abrams in 1990.

Provides literature-based activities for teaching math to students in grades one through three, each with activities, reproducible patterns, and recording sheets.

This book explores new and exciting ways with the Tangram puzzle. Many of the ideas are original both from the mathematical and artistic perspective. There are chapters on tessellating Tangrams, Tangram Mosaics and series of designs that exploit the precious nature of the tiles. A chapter is devoted to the creation of three dimensional objects and for the more mathematical mind there is a chapter on the representation of the designs using matrices. The book is full of remarkable illustrations, created by the author. If a picture is worth a thousand words then this book is a heavy tome.

This book provides teachers of all levels with a great deal of valuable material to help them introduce discrete mathematics into their classrooms.

Young learners will love creating delightful projects--and you’ll love tapping into fresh ideas that connect math and art! Children explore the shapes in their world through irresistible art projects like Sponge-Paint Shape Critters, Cut-n-Paste Quilts, and many more! This one-of-a-kind resource is complete with reproducible shape patterns, interactive bulletin board ideas, and cross-curricular links to help make teaching shapes a snap! Includes easy how-to’s and time-saving tips! For use with Grade PreK-K.

High interest math content correlated to National Math Standards as well as National Standards for social studies, science, music, and art

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