Response to Tammy -- I have always loved Tangrams.
Until they moved this last weekend, I had two 3rd grade boys (twins) that
I saw for math. One day, one of the boys was gone. I decided that with just
one student there was really no reason to go on the the next math lesson (I
was useing Saxon Math 2 with them). So... spur of the moment, I got out my
tangram pieces with accompanying cards. I was amazed to discover that this
little boy had never seen tangrams before. We spend our math period playing
with them. He learned to "fill in" the outlined patterns quickly.
He was immensely proud of himself whenever he completed a pattern. While working,
we talked about how turing the shapes made them fit into different spaces,
the names of the different pieces, and how they fit together to make different
shapes.
