Wooden Tangram - Geometric Shape Puzzle

There's a reason why the tangrams are always present in early education. 

Research hints that it can boost arithmetic performance, too. When Yi Ling Cheng and Kelly Mix asked kids, aged 6-8, to perform a series of tangram-like spatial tasks, the practice session seemed to prime the brain for mathematics.

Teachers have found that playing with tangrams may help kids

• classify shapes
• develop positive feelings about geometry
• gain a stronger grasp of spatial relationships
• develop an understanding of how geometric shapes can be decomposed
• hone spatial rotation skills
• acquire a precise vocabulary for manipulating shapes (e.g., “flip,” “rotate”)
• learn the meaning of congruence

Kids who spent 40 minutes solving shape rotation puzzles performed better on a pencil-and-paper arithmetic test immediately thereafter. Compared to tangram-like activities, crossword puzzle warm-ups had no such effect (Cheng and Mix 2012).

Contains 155 wooden geometric shapes and 24 pattern cards