Math Thinker

I found this rich presentation on the subject here: Natural Math Blog. I’m really enjoying reading this blog right now.  I hope to delve more into the content later and maybe even talk about it here in this blog.

Click the image to view the presentation

I never really understood or appreciated tangrams. I always saw them as just shapes for building images. As a child, I never explored using them to solve visual puzzles.

I’ve been fiddling around with an electronic tangram template. You can see my first attempt to build and label a shape here.

My tangram

I’m going to use this blog to keep track of some of the observations I make every day about when I use math.