Tangrams: 330 Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math) [Paperback]

Ronald C. Read (Author)

Book Description

Series: Dover Recreational Math | Publication Date: June 1, 1965

Selection of best Oriental, American problems; figures built up out of standard geometric pieces. Pagodas, cats, people, bridges, etc. Solutions.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications; Front Cover Bent edition (June 1, 1965)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486214834
• ISBN-13: 978-0486214832
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,000 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Customer Reviews

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a lovely book for tangram's lovers, November 9, 2001

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Myriam Namolaru (Haifa, ISRAEL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tangrams: 330 Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math) (Paperback)

This book have 334 pages and it is very complete.
The introduction is very instructive.
There are 11 parts: Letters and numbers, Animals (tangram zoo, cats, dogs, birds, horses, bats, sea creatures...) Mankind (servants, Sam Loyd's portrait gallery, horsemen, medieval ladies...), around the house (watering can, baby carriages, stocking, pistol..), boat and bridges, stories and pictures (the house that jack built, the story of cinderella, a game of billard, the orchestra), a little mathematics (! ), chinoiseries (some chinese characters, dagger, raincot, "drinkink alone"), paradoxes and illusions, double tangrams (rocket, coach, sport car, television set, lion..) et the fifteen-piece puzzle (a pavillon in the moolight, a man asleep in a drifting boat..).
The solutions are given in the back of the book. The illustrations and the explanations are very clear. The author wrote a book really complete about tangram

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars lots of tangrams to play with, August 7, 2007

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Alice Cotton-royer (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tangrams: 330 Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math) (Paperback)

The tangrams themselves all have to be enlarged in order for my students to use them but I do that in Photoshop and it is working fine. I like that all the answers are there as well. Lots to pick from.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hours of challenging fun as you test your ability to manipulate objects, August 6, 2008

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tangrams: 330 Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math) (Paperback)

Tangrams are a fascinating set of puzzles, but quite frankly, the descriptions of many of the figures require a selective use of your imagination. Using seven standard pieces, (five triangles, one square and one rhomboid), you are to arrange them to create a figure. The 330 puzzles in this book will sometimes be easy to create and other times they will test your resolve. Solutions to all of the puzzles are included at the end.
When she was two years old, I bought a set of tangrams for my daughter and we worked at them for hours, she enjoyed making figures and sometimes created credible ones of her own. We spent hours doing this and it was father-daughter time that was well spent.