Tangrams: 330 Puzzles (Dover Math Games & Puzzles)

My middle school students love working on tangram puzzles. They make a nice activity to complement instruction about transformations, symmetry, and geometry. It helps to introduce and reinforce instruction about fractions. The students love to "race" each other the complete the puzzles. Usually, they struggle with the tangrams at first, claiming that there's no way to solve the puzzle. The students learn to be persistent, patient, and to think about what they are doing. I love when they struggle, get frustrated, then have a gigantic "ah-ha" moment. They feel very good about themselves, and I love that they recognize that they didn't give up just because it was difficult. The ELA/LIT teacher has incorporated the shapes and stories the students create into her instruction as well, making this a fun way to integrate instruction across content areas. We try to keep the integration light and fun. I use the history of tangrams to show the students what children 2000 years ago did to entertain themselves without video games!

This is a great activity for motivating the brain. I tried it with my 93-year-old mom. She struggled at the beginning. We started working together with the first couple of letters. Once she got the hang of it, she did three more letters on her own. I told her how proud I was of her accomplishment and she responded with a beautiful smile of satisfaction!! This was a very rewarding experience, and we will continue working on some other pictures to keep her mind sharp!! I highly recommend this book!!

We bought this as part of our homeschool curriculum, to be used withLearning Resources Tangrams Smart Pack. My son was able to flip through the book, search for the puzzle he wanted to create, and was able to do most of the puzzles with minimal assistance. The book did need to be propped open, but it is the perfect size to place in a gallon ziplock bag with the Tangrams and taken on trips.This book is probably the most appropriate for children over the age of eight, with a few exceptions for younger ages if you have a child who is a quick study (this requires an honest look at your child's capabilities). I would not try this on a child younger than the age of eight. However, if you do find it is too overwhelming, you merely need to save it for a few years and he/she will then be ready.Great for critical thinking, understanding spatial concepts, fine motor development, and basic geometry.

My 10 year old loves these things. We homeschool and anything to make learning fun and interesting is great in my book. My 6 year old isn't as advanced as my 10 year old was at her age. She knows all of her shapes, but is struggling with math. If sat and thought about, this book can be very helpful with addition, subtraction, special awareness, critical thinking, fine motor skills(ages 2 and up) and just all around fun time.

I was very disappointed that the book was not full size. I wanted the child to be able to place the tangrams on the page itself. Now I will have to try to enlarge the page somehow to make it fit tangrams on it properly I guess. The figures seem to be very good and the solutions in the back are helpful. So if you wanted your child to just look at the figures and replicate them to the side somehow the book would be fine.

It provides many challenging puzzles. I think we might only be on page two! The puzzle I purchased didn't have a useful set of puzzles to try to solve, so this book "saves the day>"

Awesome for my Pre-K, 4th and 6th grader.Keeps them busy, occupied, increased their focus, concentration, reasoning, analytical and logical reasoning skill sets. Just top of the line. Every minute worth it in life, huh!!!!

My 5 and 7 year olds love this book! In the first part, there are tangram pictures in black, in the second part, the same tangrams 'revealed'. My girls love to use the second part and spend even an hour by themselves with their tangrams and this book. Wonderful purchase!

Como já disse, muito bom para manter a mente resolvendo problemas gráficos

Perfect for kids and adults i love these

Great guide to Tangram world!

Nice book...Great author.

Great for puzzlers!