Ocean tangram puzzles are great to explore during the summer or while exploring ocean animals. A crab, dolphin, and fish are displayed on free printable mats.
The ocean tangram puzzles are a great way to explore shapes and spatial relations. What fun your children will have flipping and rotating tangram shapes to get them to look the way the shapes in the puzzles do.
Getting the Ocean Tangram Puzzles Set Ready
This set is a PDF. When you download it, you will need to open it with a PDF reader. Acrobat Reader is a popular reader that you can download to use. You probably have it on your computer already
If you plan on using the mats and puzzle pieces over and over again you may want to laminate them. Below you will find some laminating supplies I recommend.
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Ways to Use the Set
There are a number of ways that you can explore this set with your children. Below you will see some ways that they can be explored.
- Children can do a free exploration of the mats and tangrams in a math center. Your children will be working without you in a center. Having another person working in the center will allow them to keep track of each others success.
- Children can work in a small group with you. This will allow you to demonstrate how to turn and flip the tangrams. It will also help you to see if they are understanding what they need to do.
- If you have enough tangrams and mats for everyone, you can do this as a whole class activity.
More Ocean Themed Activities
Find, Count, and Create Bar Graphs with Ocean Creatures
Ocean Life LEGO Building Ideas
