TANGRAM SITES

Classical Chinese Puzzles – Wei Zhang and Peter Rasmussen run this site and are members of the Classical Chinese Puzzles Project organization. The tangram page is very informative and has pictures I've never seen before. After enjoying the tangrams, take some time to look around the rest of the site.

Knitted Tangram Set – Jessica Goddard from ODDknit.com had the idea to knit up an unique set of tans. Cool idea and quite appropriate for a craft that has mathematical links.

New Tangram Variations - Serhiy Grabarchuk' site has some interesting new variations on playing with tangrams. Scroll down the page to find the tangrams, after that, have a look around the rest of his well done puzzle site. Lots of good articles sure to get you thinking.

Ten Millions of Tangram Patterns and more: – Franco Cocchini has a great page concerning ways to estimate difficulty and classifications. He also investigates how many designs are possible just in the fully matched set of shapes. Gave me a greater understanding.   Thanks Franco!

Andrea's Tangram and Dissection Puzzle Pages: Andrea C's new location. She's included some tangram animations, Cinderella figures plus many original single and double (two sets) designs. Check out the dance sequences. Cool! She also has other interesting old dissection puzzles including scanned original brochures. You can find more of her work on pages 2 and 3 of my donation pages. I also had the pleasure of working with her on my Tangram book.

Tangrammit: Tangrams from Barbara Ford, another of my tangram friends. She's got great tangram design ideas to share. Barbara has also written two wonderful tangram story books with many new shapes. Recommended!

Eric's Tangram Pages: – Eric Warsop has been doing some very interesting work with tangram notation. He's been kind enough to share his work with us in the hopes of stimulating other interested people.

What are we playing: Tangram or Math?: A tangram video! C.Pellegrino and L.Zuccheri use tangrams as "an example and a metaphor" to talk about mathematics. They bring together many ideas related to both subjects. If you like math or tangrams, have a look. In English or Italian.

Puzzle World: One of John Rausch's great puzzle sites. Search the site for tangrams, he's got very interesting articles and pictures.

Logic Puzzle Museum: If you're ever in the area, you will want to visit this place. Along with their tangrams, they offer a variety of puzzles and art projects that are on-going and hands on.

Tangrams: Juergen Koeller has gathered a lot of interesting observations and notes about tangrams on his page. English or German.

Puzzles – Tangrams: The Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games at the University of Waterloo has a great collection of puzzles and games, here's the tangram page.

Math Forum@Drexel: Great collection of teaching resources about tangrams and math. Scroll down to "Search this site" and type in tangram.

KidScoop.com: Kidscoop involves kids in their local community and provides quality ideas and fun.

PuzzleBoxWorld.com: Not about tangrams but they do have a great selection and information on another fascinating Asian puzzle, the Japanese puzzle box. Also a nice selection of other box and burr puzzles.

Enchanted Mind Tangrams: Online tangrams, part of their creativity stimulating site.

Pieces Pack #1: A package of tangram designs by S. Bartok for use in Mark Overmars' Tangram 1 program (see my download page)

Un nuage d'école: – French primary school teacher Muriel has put together an interactive multimedia portal. In French, of course.

Puzzles of Leonid Mochalov: No Tangrams but Leonid does have a wide range of puzzles to challenge you.

Tangrams: A short animated story illustrated with tangrams by Geoff Dellow for elementary students.

Strong Museum – Tangrams: A few print outs and a flashy tangram picture.

Trackstar: A teacher resource list. Do a site search for tangram

Developing Geometry Understandings and Spatial Skills through Puzzlelike Problems with Tangrams: Tangram Puzzles: The title says it all. From the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). With an online Tangram game to play with.

Tangram Puzzle: Some printouts from Funorama.com, part of their larger site. PDF or GIF.

Illinois Power: Tangrams show up in odd places. Here it's their company logo.

Tangrams and Fractions: Mathline is providing a tangram lesson plan for grades 6-8. Construction of a set and comparison of fractions.

QUERIES ON ORIENTAL SOURCES IN RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS: Prof. David Singmaster has done some extensive research into the early history of tangrams and is kind enough to share it with us.

Puzzles of the Month: Part of The Puzzle Museum site (take a moment to look around), they have a nice example of an ivory tangram set about half-way down the page.

PuzzleUP: PuzzleUP has a Tangram page as part of their "Puzzle Playground – Treasury of Classic and Modern puzzles" section. If you like puzzles in general, browse the large selection available on their site.

Marcus' Tangram Site: Marcus has launched a site about his (and mine) favorite puzzle. Some history, make one, solve some shapes and read his ideas about other things to do with the tans.

Pentominoes and Pygrams: Teacher Odette and her math class of 13 year olds at K.S.O. Glorieux Ronse, Belgium have put together 2 sites about pentominoes. Well worth a look if you like moving piece puzzles. They've also got a contest (with a prize) underway open to anybody. Check it out!

TANGRAM, the incredible Chinese puzzle: Sarcone and Waeber have a page about mechanical and other puzzles. Click on "Puzzles to solve" and look for Tangramagic. Look around at the rest of the site while you're there. Lots of interesting stuff here!

Tangram Polygon Challenge: Laura Candler has a .pdf printout for teachers.

Tom Scavo's Tangrams KidsCom Tangram Font: They've got a Mac version.

Livewire Puzzles: – A lot more than Tangrams here but check under "Do it yourself". They've also got some good stuff about solving puzzles in general.

Part of Christian Eggermont's site:, a good list of puzzle links

Christian's:Tangram specific page

Enchanted Mind:- Tangram Java Puzzle with some information. Take some time to see the rest of the site, it's good for stretching your mind.

Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching:- Puzzle Index

Tangram: Logicville did this page, part of their puzzles and brain teasers site.

Puzzookies: Something a bit different. They're cookies in the shape of a tangram set. The packages have puzzles to solve printed on the wrapper. Play for a while then have a snack!