The Tangram Magician


Book Description

Based on the Chinese puzzle game, this story follows a magician's imagination that leads to the changes in shapes of the puzzles and story by constant rearrangement of the pieces of stickers.




Tangram Magician


Book Description

The Tangram is an ancient Chinese puzzle that uses seven geometric pieces to create a multitude of images. A story and a puzzle in one, this book tells the tale of a shape-changing magician and includes seven colourful foam shapes that make up each of the illustrations. Children can follow along with the story or create wonderful new designs of their own. Tangram Magician was previously published by Harry Abrams in 1990.




Teaching Math with Favorite Picture Books


Book Description

Provides literature-based activities for teaching math to students in grades one through three, each with activities, reproducible patterns, and recording sheets.




Grandfather Tang's Story


Book Description

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




The Tangram Route to Infinity


Book Description

This book explores new and exciting ways with the Tangram puzzle. Many of the ideas are original both from the mathematical and artistic perspective. There are chapters on tessellating Tangrams, Tangram Mosaics and series of designs that exploit the precious nature of the tiles. A chapter is devoted to the creation of three dimensional objects and for the more mathematical mind there is a chapter on the representation of the designs using matrices. The book is full of remarkable illustrations, created by the author. If a picture is worth a thousand words then this book is a heavy tome.




Adventures of a Kid Magician


Book Description

Adventures of a Kid Magician is Zach's private journal, detailing how magic gets Zach both into and out of trouble as he learns life lessons! Along with Zach's thrilling stories and eye-catching sketches, each adventure comes with a secret magic code that will take you to an exclusive online video of the actual magic tricks used in the adventure! You too will experience the excitement of fooling and impressing your friends with top magician Justin Flom's creative instruction.




Tangram, Volume 1


Book Description

Tangram celebrates awe-inspiring expression across all creative disciplines. Each issue features an eclectic cast of artists, tinkerers, scientists, and eccentrics who embrace the many exciting intersections between beauty and surprise. The physical journal itself is designed to express a philosophy of play as art. Within the pages, a curious reader can find tactile, visual, and intellectual excitement. Tangram can spark a shift in perspective-things begin to glimmer that never did before. The world becomes a more astonishing place.




Super-Easy Shape Art


Book Description

Young learners will love creating delightful projects--and you’ll love tapping into fresh ideas that connect math and art! Children explore the shapes in their world through irresistible art projects like Sponge-Paint Shape Critters, Cut-n-Paste Quilts, and many more! This one-of-a-kind resource is complete with reproducible shape patterns, interactive bulletin board ideas, and cross-curricular links to help make teaching shapes a snap! Includes easy how-to’s and time-saving tips! For use with Grade PreK-K.




Discrete Mathematics in the Schools


Book Description

This book provides teachers of all levels with a great deal of valuable material to help them introduce discrete mathematics into their classrooms.




Tangram Puzzles


Book Description

High interest math content correlated to National Math Standards as well as National Standards for social studies, science, music, and art