Tangram Puzzles

Give each student six square-inch tiles and assign the Shapes with Six Tiles Assessment Master. Students may use inch rulers. Students are asked to find the perimeter and area of a shape and then to make two more shapes with different perimeters from the first shape. In Question 1, the shape has an area of 6 square inches and a perimeter of 12 square inches. All shapes will have an area of 6 square inches. All other answers will vary depending on the shapes students make. Students should notice that the area is the same for all shapes.