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Tangrams: An interactive challenge
Teacher notes to guide students’ investigation of combining plane shapes into other arrangements.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 4
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Shapes and objects
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M4SP01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P3)
- Publisher
- NRICH
- Copyright
- © Crown Copyright. Free-for-education material.
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