The tangram as a didactic game.
The tangram is a board game that consists of 7 geometrical figures, of these 7 geometrical figures you can form infinite shapes. The game of Tangram is also known as "BREAKING OF THE SEVEN WISDOMS" or "THE SEVEN INTELLIGENT PIECES." The mastery of this interesting game is based on the enormous range of stylized figures that can be made from seven geometrical figures. they know with the name of tans.
Origin of Tangram
Obtejivo of the game
is to organize the pieces (called tans) to form an infinite variety of forms.
The seven geometrical figures that make up the tangran are:
❖Two small triangle.
❖a medium triangle.
❖Two large triangles.
❖ A square.
❖1 Rhomboid parallelogram.
There are different types of tangrams (the figure shapes of the seven pieces).
❖ Classic Tangram : This type of tangram uses the seven pieces. Each piece must touch one of the other pieces. It is considered to be the easiest figures that can be made.
- Example:
❖ Paradoxes: They are almost identical figures, but one of the figures seems to have an extra piece or is missing one with respect to the other.
- Example: These figures of oriental men seem to be exactly the same, but really the figure on the right side changed his foot to another place.
❖ Convex: A convex tangram is a form that has no concavities, because all its angles point outwards.
Benefits of tangram as an educational game
❖ It stimulates the child's creative thinking, allowing him to create his own figures.
❖ It can be used as tools to work with mathematical content such as: measurements, distances and surfaces.
❖ Develop the visual imagination. (Up, down, right, left.)
❖ Patience, attention, logical thinking and imagination develops.
Suggested activities to work in the classroom
- In the classroom you can motivate your students to build their own tangram.
- Provide ready figures for them to assemble.
- Perform competitions between two children to see who arms in the shortest time.
