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If you missed last week's post about how I used Ten Flashing Fireflies to work on combinations of 10 with K-1 students, you can
check it out here!
This week, I want to show you a few old favorites and share a new free favorite app with you as well. All of these are based around tangrams. I love using tangrams in the classroom and as math has become more and more standards based, I have found ways to incorporate them in other areas of the curriculum as well. I love how some kids who struggle with other math concepts really excel with geometry tasks. Tangrams are a must have in every classroom!
Have tangrams but no time to use them? Check out some of these great resources!
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A great book for kids to read to themselves! Use it for guided reading, add it to book boxes, or send it home! |
Tangram Tales
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A great one for working on reading fluency and having a lot of fun combining literacy and math! |
The newest addition to my love of tangrams is a free app called TanZen Lite. I have used this myself and have used it with students in grades 2-6. It does have a few advertisements on it but I have not yet felt the need to upgrade to the paid version. Take a look!
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Here are some of the animals and shapes you can choose from! There are 3 pages like this which gives you 45 different options. |
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You can build with one, two or three players |
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You can choose different music, turn hints on and off or go into master's mode |
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Rotating and moving the pieces is easy to figure out! |
Do you know of any other tangram resources I should add to my repertoire? Please respond in the comments below!
Tangram Tales????? What a fantastic book!!! {added to cart} I've never seen it before!! That would have been PERFECT to go with our end-of-year story writing unit because what did we write?!?: Tangram Stories!!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing!!
Janaye
Tales of Frogs and Cupcakes