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Tangrams 3 – exploring halves
Use tangram pieces and strategies such as visualising to explore the connection between fractions and surface area of 2D shapes. Then challenge students to explore all the different ways they can show half using a given rectangle.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 3 Year 4
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Teaching strategies
- Strand
- Number Space Measurement
- Topic
- Fractions Shapes and objects
- Audience
- Students Teachers
- Format
- Video
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting fractions (P5)
- Publisher
- NSW Department of Education
- Copyright
- © State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2020 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.
- Keywords
- shape area rectangle square triangle parallelogram reasoning problem solving
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