Rearrange the seven tangram pieces into new shapes, reasoning about the pieces' sizes and angles.
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A square cut into 2 large triangles, 1 medium, 2 small, a square and a parallelogram.
Tangrams are puzzles that came from China. They use 7 pieces made by cutting a square like this:
How the seven pieces rearrange into the book's arrow.
Problem. Rearrange the seven pieces into the arrow shown in your textbook (p. 156).
Rebuild the tangram shapes from the book.
Figure it Out, Textbook p. 156. Your textbook shows black shapes, each made from all 7 tangram pieces. Use your pieces to make at least three of them. Describe how you placed the pieces for each.
Start with the large triangles.