Tangram is an ancient Chinese puzzle game that challenges players to create specific shapes using a set of seven geometric pieces, called "tans." These pieces include five triangles (of various sizes), a square, and a parallelogram.
A Tangram is a puzzle or a tricky set of seven geometric shapes made up of two small triangles, one medium triangle, two large triangles (total five triangles), a square, and a parallelogram.
The earliest extant tangram was given to the Philadelphia shipping magnate and congressman Francis Waln in 1802 but it was not until over a decade later that Western audiences, at large, would be exposed to the puzzle. [1]
Benefits:Tangrams is an excellent example of a spatial visualization/spatial reasoning game. As such it is a great way to exercise your brain and become better at tasks like map reading and assembling furniture.
The Tangram Channel provides a great number of tangram puzzles, short videos, step by step tutorials and tangram-related activities.
Play Tamcat: an online cross-platform free-to-play tangram game. Choose and post tangram puzzles.
Dating back hundreds of years, tangram puzzles use seven shapes in various combinations to build pictures. These virtual tangrams offer tons of opportunities for kids to practice spatial rotation and explore the relationships between shapes.
These are a collection of Tangram Puzzles for your enjoyment. Position and Rotate the pieces until you have completed the shape.
Invented in China approximately 200 years ago, a tangram is a two-dimensional re-arrangement puzzle created by cutting a square into seven pieces — seven geometric shapes called “tans” (Slocum et al 2003).