Tangrams E-Book

James Lyon

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 25

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

Use the tans to make pictures and you will improve your lateral thinking and creativity. Now you can stretch the visual side of your brain – whatever your age! * Over 200 puzzles for children and adults. * Have fun developing your visual–spatial skills. * Play at home or on the move.

Leseprobe

JAMES LYON

TANGRAMS

SHAPE PUZZLES

TO STRETCH YOUR BRAIN!

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CONTENTS

TANGRAMS

A Mysterious History

To Train your Brain

Playing with Tangrams

THE PUZZLES

People

Animals

Buildings

Transport

Objects

Tangram Tales

ANSWERS

The Tangram-Times-Two Tournament

Acknowledgements

TANGRAMS

A Mysterious History

Tangrams are simply amazing! How can seven simple shapes have formed such a wonderful and intriguing puzzle, one with an incredible and mysterious history?

The tangram can be played as both a puzzle for a lone player or as a game for many. It uses just seven geometric shapes cut from a square (five equilateral triangles of different sizes, one square and one parallelogram). Anyone with a piece of paper and a set of scissors can enjoy the wonders of the tangram, although highly prized tangram sets have even been made from delicately carved ivory.

Whatever the pieces are made from, with a set of tangrams, the possibilities for creating intriguing pictures, and even stories, are endless.

The Early Game

Tangrams originated in China and were traditionally played at home, often, but not uniquely, by children. It is not known exactly when the puzzle was invented. Some say as early as the second millennium BCE in the Zhou period, but evidence is scanty. It is also thought that tangram sets may have been used by Chinese mathematicians 2,200 years ago to help them with their theories. And a slightly different form of the game seems to have been played in Japan in the eighteenth century. But what is known for sure is that it was very popular in China from about 1800.

Seven Ingenious Pieces

In Chinese the tangram game is called Qi qiao ban or ‘Seven Ingenious Pieces’. The earliest surviving Chinese book on tangrams, Tangram Combinations