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How to make a tangram

The original square is halved into two triangles and those shapes are cut down further to make all pieces in a tangram set.

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Year level(s) Year 1
Audience Student, Teacher
Purpose Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format Video
Keywords triangles, trapezoid, parallelogram, explicit teaching

Curriculum alignment

Curriculum connections Numeracy
Strand and focus Space, Build understanding
Topics Shapes and objects
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions
AC9M1SP01
Make, compare and classify familiar shapes; recognise familiar shapes and objects in the environment, identifying the similarities and differences between them

Numeracy progression Understanding geometric properties (P2)

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