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Tangrams are 7 piece puzzles that date back to Ancient China. Using just the 7 shapes: 5 triangles, 1 square, and 1 parallelogram - one can create abstract puzzles of animals, people, and objects. Sometimes you will have students who are looking for a challenge - I always have one or two in my class who need something beyond their classmates. This Math Tangram Puzzle takes solving for variables one step further by having the variable on both sides of the equation. Perfect way to differentiat

Tangrams are 7 piece puzzles that date back to Ancient China. Using just the 7 shapes: 5 triangles, 1 square, and 1 parallelogram - one can create abstract puzzles of animals, people, and objects. This activity includes two different puzzles: one with 7 expressions, the other with 6. Students will need to follow the order of operations to solve each expression. A worksheet for each puzzle is provided for you to print out and give to the students. As they work through each expression, they ca

Page 1 of this PDF is a notes sheet that I have shared with my students as a review of their Mathematical Properties. For Associative and Commutative properties, I give a definition of the root word to help them remember the difference. Page 2 will be used during our Integers unit, showing how we can rewrite any subtraction expression into an addition expression using positive and negative integers. You can share one or both pages with your students. To share just one page, you can open th