{"id":74437,"date":"2020-06-25T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T16:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=74437"},"modified":"2020-06-25T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T16:01:58","slug":"tangram-squares","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/math\/math-grades-1-3\/whats-new\/tangram-squares\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangram Squares"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Investigations<\/h5>\n<h3>Materials:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>a <a href=\"https:\/\/nrich.maths.org\/content\/03\/01\/cupboardlove1\/tangram%20new.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">copy of tangram pieces<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>if you don\u2019t have a printer you could make your own using squared paper <a href=\"https:\/\/mathigon.org\/tangram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">or you could use the virtual version<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>scissors to cut out the pieces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The tangram is a square that has been cut into seven pieces.<\/p>\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74438 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/Tangram_1.png\" alt=\"A square cut into 7 pieces: 2 large triangles, 1 medium triangle, 2 small triangles, 1 small square and 1 parallelogram.\" width=\"164\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/Tangram_1.png 164w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/Tangram_1-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/Tangram_1-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><\/h5>\n<p>Can you make other squares using some, but not all, of the pieces?<br \/>\nCan you make five different squares?<br \/>\nWhat is the smallest square you can make?<br \/>\nWhat is the largest?<\/p>\n<h3>Possible Hints and Questions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>How many pieces are there altogether?<\/li>\n<li>What could you put with this piece to make a square?<\/li>\n<li>Are all the pieces different?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Possible Extension<\/h3>\n<p>Try some of the additional tangram puzzles <a href=\"https:\/\/mathigon.org\/tangram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">using the virtual version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/nrich.maths.org\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nrich.maths.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tangram is a square that has been cut into seven pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72818,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74437","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74437\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}