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I Heart Tangrams Math Centers

5.0 (279 reviews)

Tangrams present your students with an engaging, hands-on way to develop the following skills: •spatial reasoning •critical thinking •problem solving •understanding of geometry concepts (congruence, similarity, symmetry, rotation, transformation, reflection, attributes of polygons, etc.) These…

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Grade
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Subject
Math
Pages
105
Answer key
Included
Teaching duration
2 Months
Digital download
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Description

Tangrams present your students with an engaging, hands-on way to develop the following skills:

•spatial reasoning

•critical thinking

•problem solving

•understanding of geometry concepts (congruence, similarity, symmetry, rotation, transformation, reflection, attributes of polygons, etc.)

These puzzles are perfect for math centers, fast-finishers, and cooperative learning. Your students will LOVE them!

Included in this resource:

•75 unique full-size Tangram puzzles that will perfectly fit your 4-inch* Tangram manipulatives

•75 smaller Tangram cards (identical to the full-size puzzles), for adding another element of difficulty

•printable 4-inch Tangram manipulatives in various colors and black and white

•an answer key for all 75 puzzles

* Most Tangram manipulatives are 4 inches, which means when you arrange the 7 shapes in to a square, each side of the square is 4 inches long. The full-size puzzles in this resources are designed to perfectly fit 4-inch Tangram sets. You can still use other size sets, but they will not match up perfectly. Some teachers prefer that the sizes do not match up, as this requires students to further engage spatial reasoning skills, which is why I have also included the smaller Tangram cards.

Save money and purchase this as part of theHands-on Math: Build Your Own Bundle!

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Excellent note only missing one thing

I love using this in class, it would be perfect if it included an exit ticket portion, I love the power point piece and how brightly colored it is i just feel as it would be more complete with the independent practice.

5th Grade Grammar Unit: Idioms, Adages & Proverbs
Hanging With Ms Humpert

Complete Resource

Almost everything you need to teach idioms, adages, and proverbs. It still left me with some questions about the clear differences between adages and proverbs, but it had plenty of examples to help me decipher the difference. Overall, I think this is a tricky standard, and this helped to clarify.

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Hanah C.

Would be great for an easily-engaged class!

I think that this resource would be awesome if you had kids who were easily bought into learning. I haven't used it yet because I worry that it will fall on deaf ears with my current group, but will be utilizing it eventually!

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Schooling with a side of Sarcasm

Thank you!!!

This resource was easy to use and well-organized. My students were engaged and clearly understood the lesson objectives. It saved me a lot of prep time and aligned well with what I needed to teach. I would definitely recommend this to other teachers!

Questions & Answers (2)

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Gretchen Sustachek

I purchased this product and will be using the larger version pages with my students. However, I don't see a page with a copy of the large tangram pieces that I can print and laminate for my students to use. I just see the small versions. Is that included somewhere and I'm just not seeing it? Thank you. G. Sustachek

Teacher Thrive

Hi Gretchen,
I only include the 4-inch tangrams, since all of the cards are sized for them. You can still use your larger tangrams, they just won't line up perfectly with the cards.

Kimberley B.

This is missing the last 5 large 4 inch tangram frames, number 71 to 75.

Teacher Thrive

Sorry about that! I am not sure how that happened. They have been added.

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