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Tangrams

Stage:2 Challenge Level:

Just how can the same seven pieces of the tangram make the following two
silhouettes of a bowl before and after it was chipped?

Paradoxical eh? (There are other paradoxes that can be found using
the tangramwhich you might like to find out about.)

See if you can make the two bowls using the interactivity below.

Can you explain the paradox?

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Tangram.
Practical Activity.
Interactivities.
Compound transformations.
Visualising.
Games.
Generalising.
Cubes.
Addition & subtraction.
Working systematically.

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