The pieces are then rearranged to make other shapes. Tangrams provide practice in spatial orientation as students see the relationships between the different shapes, their size and orientation. The tangram activities in IntelliMathics allow students to move, flip and rotate the tangram pieces on screen. Each activity can be shared, duplicated and provides a great model for cooperative learning. IntelliMathics helps students better understand these abstract concepts by exposing them first to sorting and counting activities with popular manipulatives before introducing the use spinners and dice.
More advanced students can fill in graphs and charts to analyze complex data samples.
Communication Venn Circles, grids and direction boxes allow students to sort, define and explain their thinking patterns. Young children use many forms of communication - oral, pictorial and symbolic. When children share what they know, they both affirm their knowledge as well as open their ideas to challenges by others. IntelliMathics gives students a tool to represent their thinking even before they have the language to verbally express themselves. Once students are able to articulate their ideas, they can use IntelliTalk II to write about their observations and justify their answers.