Texas Mathematics Teacher Fall/Winter 2022 - 13

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Dusty Jones
A tangram is made of seven pieces that can be arranged in
a square shape, like the one shown below.
For more of a challenge, rearrange the pieces to make a
beetle, a butterfly, or a dragonfly. All seven pieces are
used in each figure.
You can cut your own tangram pieces from paper, purchase
pre-made tangram pieces, or use an online tangram
puzzle such as the free virtual manipulative at
https://mathigon.org/tangram
Rearrange the tangram pieces to create a praying mantis
in this way:
In one old house, there are wolf spiders and houseflies in
several of the rooms.
Every wolf spider has 8 legs, 1 head, 8 eyes, and 0 wings.
Every housefly has 6 legs, 1 head, 2 eyes, and 2 wings.
In the living room, there are 7 wolf spiders.
How many legs are there in the living room?
How many heads?
How many eyes?
How many wings?
In the bedroom, there are 10 houseflies.
How many legs are there in the bedroom?
How many heads?
How many eyes?
How many wings?
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