Supplemental Products

The McRuffy Tangram Adventure Pack includes the following:

• McRuffy Tangram Adventure book features
  120 puzzle mats with 60 different designs.
  Sixty mats show the designs with interior lines.
  Sixty mats show the designs with only the outline.
  
  
• Three 7-Piece Tangram Sets

McRuffy Tangram Adventure is a wire or spiral bound book. Four themes are included. A tangram farm, tangram safari, an ocean of tangrams, and a tangram forest provide children with plenty of enjoyable learning experiences.

Tangrams are seven piece plastic sets. Five triangles in 3 different sizes, a square, and a parallelagram are manipulated to complete the puzzle mats. Tangrams provide great opportunities for practicing spatial - orientation skills.

Grades K-4

The McRuffy Pattern Block pack includes the following:

• The McRuffy Pattern Block Pictures where children make colorful pictures. (Spiral bound book with
  15 designs on 30 pages)
  
  
• The Pattern Block Symmetry Mats show half of the design. Children complete the second half of the design along the dashed line to make a symmetrical design.
  (19 mats and 6 cards)
  
  
• 100 Pattern Blocks
  
  
• The Plastic Pattern Blocks Mirror can be used to check symmetry.

Pattern Blocks are the simplest puzzle pieces. Sets have
6 colors and 6 shapes. The interrelationships between
pieces allow children many solutions to puzzle mats.

Grades K-3

See more manipulatives a la carte.

The McRuffy Pentomino pack includes the following:

• The Pentomino Puzzle Book is a reproducible 85 page book. Puzzles will challenge students from grades K to 8. Some puzzles are simplified for younger students. Ideas for increasing or decreasing the difficulty level are explained. See sample puzzles from within the book. Spiral bound to lie flat.
  
  
• The Pentomino Missing Piece Game. Players use logic and visual-perceptual skills to find a pentomino piece that will connect to four other pieces in a specific way. See a sample of how to play!
  
  
• 12-piece plastic pentomino set is also included.

Pentominoes are twelve piece sets, each covering five square inches. The pieces are similar in shape, requiring greater spatial reasoning skills.

Spacial orientation and logic skills are emphasized using pentominoes. Students must choose the correct piece and orient it correctly.

Grades K-8