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12: **Energizer: Tangrams** **You will find these tangram pieces in your manipulatives bin.** *Sometimes the pieces are in envelopes. *If you don't find the pieces, it might make sense to make your own (a piece of construction paper put through a laser printer works great!)

Some confusion in the worksheet "Can you make a square without using any triangles?" Well, there are only two pieces in this tangram set that are NOT triangles, one is a square, the other a parallelogram, are we missing something here? Do they just present the piece that's a square and say "Done!" ? I don't think they're allowed to overlap or fold them.

**Fraction Folds: You remember this one from the PD session**

**The worksheet says to use circles, but if you recall, we did this with a piece of 11 x 8.5 paper; lead your students in folding these into equalateral triangles before starting the activity. It is IMPORTANT that they have the folds properly made in advance.**

**TIPS FOR THE HARDER FRACTIONS:** it may help to visualize the larger triangle as 36 equal parts (4 triangles with 9 triangles inside each quarter.)

<-- You can see here how there are 36 pieces, so breaking out 19/36s may be easier to visualize.

**AFTER-BREAK ENERGIZER:** Bizz Buzz This activity happens on multiple days, I have found it easy in the past to have a very large (use an overhead of the 100 #s sheet if you can) and a meter stick to keep kids on track as to what # they are "on" in the circle

**Activity: Puppy Snack**

If you can't bring in the raw meat and measuring cups, we're not really sure how to do this! But really, students are going to have more problems with creating the one's that are "smaller" than the original recipe. Bring in one 1/4 measuring cup and "sand" or "flour" and some bowls, if you can.