Researchers have found that Tangram can help students’ visual and geometric thinking and even their arithmetic skills. It’s also a fun and creative challenge that has found its way on to Instagram and TikTok, says this mathematician.
Tangram is one of many rearrangement puzzles that have appeared throughout the ages.
Less than a year later, the mathematicians Alex Selby and Oliver Riordan solved the puzzle and claimed the prize. The creator of the puzzle, the controversial Christopher Monckton, said at the time he had to sell his house to raise the prize money. They report the inventor, an unknown Chinese person using the pen name Yang-Cho-Chu-Shih , published Ch'i chi'iao t'u , a book containing hundreds of Tangram puzzle shapes.
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