What is this resource?

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Good evening! Or well... Good evening!!! Or maybe... Good morning! Whatever time it is in your country... Welcome one more day to Recursiland!!! 👋

Today I'm showing you a resource that I'm sure you know about, but maybe you've never stopped to think about using it to work on geometry. Let's see if you can guess it! This resource is a set of some geometric pieces such as the parallelogram, the square, the triangle... Do you know which one it is?

You've got it right! Today we are going to talk about the Tangram, whose origin goes back to China, many years ago, as the Tangram is very old. 


The basic use of this game is to form different figures with the pieces without overlapping them. There are 7 pieces called "Tans" and they are 5 isosceles triangles (2 large, 2 small and 1 medium), 1 square and 1 parallelogram. Lately, this resource called Tangram is used with some figure models to be able to build them with all the pieces. You can find almost 16,000 figures on the internet, but here are just a few to serve as examples and to let your imagination run wild. 


Another use of this resource is, for example, to work on the symmetry and area of plane figures, calculate perimeter, identify figures and classify them. It can also be used to promote spatial orientation, visual-motor coordination, attention, spatial logical reasoning... 

Well, dear Internet teachers, I hope this resource has been useful for you and you know... the recursilandia blog gives you the resources and you... You give life to those resources! 😉

Aznarte, M. (2017). Tareas con Tangram para favorecer el sentido espacial (TFG, Universidad de Granada: España).


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