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Definition of Tangrams
1. tangram [n] - See also: tangram
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tangrams
Literary usage of Tangrams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1859)
"Geometry must be introduced by blocks and tangrams, and addressed to the imagination
before it appeals to the reason. Botany and zoology must be begun in ..."
2. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1859)
"Geometry must be introduced by blocks and tangrams, and addressed to the imagination
before it appeals to the reason. Botany »nd zoology must be begun in ..."
3. Pennsylvania School Journal by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Education Association, Pennsylvania Dept. of Common Schools (1879)
"... in the kindergarten manner, may be varied .by building with blocks and wooden
bricks, playing with dissected maps, tangrams, and other puzzles. ..."
4. American Journal of Education (1876)
"Superficiality in education, 193. Superior instruction in France, 396. Syracuse,
NY, educational convention at, 165. tangrams, in geometry, 191. ..."
5. A Treatise on the physical and medical treatment of children by William Dewees (1858)
"To children of proper age, dissected maps, and Chinese puzzles, or tangrams, are
very acceptable, and highly useful; they exercise the memory, ..."
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