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Putting the Pieces Together!Mrs. Berryman's students get a hands-on look at geometric concepts by investigating how a square can be divded into 7 pieces to make a set of tangrams. Discovery of angle/segment relationships and methods of bisecting helps students to grasp the properties of right triangles, isosceles triangles, quadrilaterals, rhombuses, rectangles, and squares. After finding areas of each piece, they utilize calculators to help determine percentages that each shape contributes to the whole.
As an added reinforcement of their learning, the 7th graders team up with their 2nd grade "reading buddies" under the guidance and supervision/direction of Mrs. Spittler in carrying out mini-lessons that share what they've learned in conjunction with the reading of Grandfather Tang's Story, a popular children's book that uses the tangram puzzle pieces to help tell the story. The students leave their buddies with a gift of individual tangram puzzle sets that they made in the VTAM Lab.
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