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Tangrams

TANGRAMS

Tangrams is an ancient art. In Chinese this puzzle is called ch’i ch’iao t’u. This translates to ‘ingenious-puzzle figure of seven pieces’. To play you simply need to rearrange the seven forms to exactly reproduce the given image. These images are either geometric in nature or patterned after a familiar object. It is not as easy as it first appears. This is an excellent exercise in spatial coordination and being able to discern the whole from its randomly scattered parts. This develops spatial pattern recognition.