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Tangrams: 330 Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math)

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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

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.

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.

I was very disappointed that the book was not full size. I wanted the child to be able to place the tangrams on the page itself. Now I will have to try to enlarge the page somehow to make it fit tangrams on it properly I guess. The figures seem to be very good and the solutions in the back are helpful. So if you wanted your child to just look at the figures and replicate them to the side somehow the book would be fine.

I think this book is a great introduction to tangram designs with different
subjects. I attempted the puzzles and succeeded at many of them.

This book has a lot of good shapes, but the details of many of the tanagrams are washed out or misaligned, so it's difficult to verify that you've made the right shape. I had a tanagram last night that had a big bump near a corner, but the picture of the tanagram didn't have the bump--when I checked the back of the book to find out how to really do it, I had done it correctly, but their shapes were a little off!

Ce livre de 334 pages est vraiment complet. Il a une introduction très instructive. Il est divisé en onze parties: Letters and numbers, Animals (tangram zoo, cats, dogs, birds, horses, bats, sea creatures...) Mankind (shoeshine boy and customer, acrobats, medieval ladies...), around the house (pipe, shoes, chairs, 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, "Buddha hand"...), paradoxes and illusions, double tangrams (house, cyclist, sport car, telescope, microscope..) et the fifteen-piece puzzle (a pavillon in the moolight, a man asleep in a drifting boat..). Les solutions sont données à la fin du livre. Les illustrations et les explications sont très claires. L'auteur a écrit un livre vraiment complet sur les tangrams.