2006-06-08 21:30:25 · 4 answers · asked by sidhu 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It literally means: "seven boards of cunning" & is a Chinese puzzle. While the tangram is often said to be ancient, its existence has only been verified as far back as 1800.
A tangram consists of 7 pieces, called tans, which fit together to form a square. The pieces are:
5 right isosceles triangles
2 small (legs of 1)
1 medium size (legs of )
2 large size (legs of 2)
1 square (side of 1)
1 parallelogram (sides of 1 and )
The objective is to form a specific shape with seven pieces. The shape has to contain all the pieces, which may not overlap.
http://www.imaginepuzzles.com/tangrams/Tangrams/Web_site/-1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangrams
2006-06-08 22:44:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
tangram: A Chinese puzzle consisting of a square cut into five triangles, a square, and a rhomboid, to be reassembled into different figures.
The word "tangram" has no meaning in Chinese; the English word is built from TANG + GRAM. In the Cantonese dialect, Tang is a synonym of "Chinese".
2006-06-08 23:07:36 · answer #2 · answered by ♥Hina♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an ancient Chinese moving piece puzzle, consisting of 7 geometric shapes. The word "tangram" means Chinese drawing. 'Tan' means 'pieces', and 'grams' means 'pictures'
2006-06-08 21:46:11 · answer #3 · answered by Rakesh A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember when you were a kid and you'd play with those shapes to make pictures in school? There were five triangles, a square, and a rhomboid, which you could rearange into different pictures.
2006-06-08 22:08:03 · answer #4 · answered by CactusRaven 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋