1. Tangram Activity for Area and Perimeter
Reporting Category: Triangles and Logic
Description: Students will develop spatial reasoning skills by using tangrams to solve puzzles.
Materials:
Activity Sheet
A set of tangrams for each student
Time Required: Varies, allow 30 minutes to get started. Students may work independently over the period of a week or so and turn in solutions later.

2. Spatial Problem Solving with Tangrams
Use the number of pieces in the first column to form each of the geometric shapes that appear in the top of the table. Make a sketch of your solution(s). Some have more than one solution while some have no solution.
Use this many pieces.
Square
Rectangle
Triangle
Trapezoid
Parallelogram 2 3 4 5 6 7