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

Gives the history of the ancient Chinese game of tangrams and shows how to arrange seven shapes into a variety of figures.

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.

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.

Targeted for elementary teachers, drama teachers, and teaching artists, Tangram Tales contains adapted tales from around the world appropriate for grades 2 through 6. Teachers can tell the stories in the classroom as part of a math unit, or have the students use the scripts provided here to perform the stories using tangrams. In the author's tangram story theater process, students are given roles as storytellers, tangram artists, and chorus members to create grade-level story presentations. Other tangram methods, such as individual student tangram tales and student-created tangram tales, are shared as well. The ways in which tangram tales connect language arts and math is demonstrated. The book includes simple black-and-white spot illustrations for each story, showing the tangram figures that depict the story. A reproducible tangram pattern is provided. Grades 2-6