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==== [[Backtoschool session Puzzling through mathematics|Puzzling through mathematics]] ====
==== [[Backtoschool session Puzzling through mathematics|Puzzling through mathematics]] ====
−Spatial reasoning and visualization are important skills to be developed; these are also essential when geometry is introduced formally. The focus of this activity is to build these skills through different kinds of visualization and patterning exercises. Tangram is a powerful way for allowing students to visualize shapes and orientations for figures. Students can be given pre-cut Tangram shapes or they can be encouraged to make the shapes themselves.
+Spatial reasoning and visualization are important skills to be developed; these are also essential when geometry is introduced formally. The focus of this activity is to build these skills through different kinds of visualization and patterning exercises. Tangram is a powerful way for allowing students to visualize shapes and orientations for figures. Students can be given pre-cut Tangram shapes or they can be encouraged to make the shapes themselves.
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==== [[Backtoschool session Communicative competencies and English as a second language|Communicative competencies and English as a second language]] ====
==== [[Backtoschool session Communicative competencies and English as a second language|Communicative competencies and English as a second language]] ====