1. a Chinese puzzle consisting of seven flat geometric shapes that can be arranged to form various figures

Examples

• The children worked together to solve the tangram puzzle.
• She arranged the tangram pieces to form a house shape.
• The math teacher used tangrams to help students learn about geometry.
• Each tangram set contains seven pieces: two large triangles, one medium triangle, two small triangles, one square, and one parallelogram.
• The ancient tangram originated in China during the Song Dynasty.
• He spent hours creating different animals using his tangram pieces.