Use these hands-on activities to promote critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Every activity helps students develop their shape recognition and spatial relationship skills. Excellent for activity centers. Includes 16 - 8 1/2" x 11" (21.5 x 28cm) cards, double-sided and coated for durability, and an activity sheet.

This collection gathers together nearly 330 tangrams, the best creations of both Chinese and Occidental puzzle devisers. Puzzles range from the relatively easy to the difficult.

Grandfather tells a story about shape-changing fox fairies who try to best each other until a hunter brings danger to both of them.

A historical study on the ancient and popular Chinese puzzle game presents more than two thousand all-time tangrams, along with detailed instructions on how to arrange these intriguing puzzle tiles and presenting a variety of special puzzles for the reader to solve. Reprint.

The tangram's challenge lies in arranging seven geometrical pieces — a square, rhomboid, and five triangles — into a variety of different shapes. These 700 absorbing puzzles include complete solutions.

Tangram Book for Kids with Animals Volume 2 A Tangram is a seven piece jigsaw puzzle that original from China. The objective is to rearrange the pieces to form the shapes of various things such as animals, people and objects.This book contains 50 tangrams with animals which are displayed one per page so that you can work on top of the puzzles. Features: 8.5x11 inch size 50 unique tangrams with animals Premium Gloss Cover Premium Quality tangram puzzle cards, tangrams cards, tanagram puzzles for kids, tangrams patterns, tangrams puzzles, puzzle solving books, tangram puzzle book, tangram kids, tangrams for kids ages 4-8

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The Creative Curriculum comes alive! This videotape-winner of the 1989 Silver Apple Award at the National Educational Film and Video Festival-demonstrates how teachers set the stage for learning by creating a dynamic well-organized environment. It shows children involved in seven of the interest areas in the The Creative Curriculum and explains how they learn in each area. Everyone conducts in-service training workshops for staff and parents or who teaches early childhood education courses will find the video an indispensable tool for explainin appropriate practice.

A MAY/JUNE 2000 BOOKSENSE '76 SELECTIONACCELERATED READER PROGRAM SELECTION"The use of foreshortening and a wide variety of camera angles makes each page a visual surprise. The emotions so clearly portrayed on each character's face echo those of the reader, who will finish this book with a broad smile."--Children's Literature "This handsome picture book will be useful for encouraging children to play around with geometry at home or in the classroom."--Booklist In China, a beautiful ceramic tile lies shattered on the ground, and the artist who dropped it is sentenced to the land's worst punishment. The fierce warlord will execute the artist unless some wise person can put the seven pieces back together. That person will then be invited to live in the castle. Both locals and strangers from far away wait their turns for a chance to solve the warlord's puzzle. After learning why these people are waiting to enter the castle, a peasant boy convinces his poor but wise father to join the line. This little boy starts them off on the first step to solving the puzzle--entering the contest.