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| Geometrik needs information on "pentominoes" | ||
| What do you know about pentominoes? | ||
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ACTIVITY 1: HOW MANY DIFFERENT PENTOMINOES CAN YOU MAKE?
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| A pentomino is a shape made up of 5 equal squares touching edge to edge. | ||
| These are pentominoes: | This is not a pentomino: | |
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Can you make a prediction? |
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| Use squared paper and make some. | ||
| When you think you have finished, ask your teacher: How many pentominoes are there? | ||
| Take a photo of your pentominoes. | ||
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ACTIVITY 2: 5x5
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| Fill a square 5x5 with five pentominoes. | ||
| Use plastic pentominoes. |  |
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| There are at least 5 solutions with one repeated. | ||
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Record some solutions and then set them for others to solve. You can take some photos. |
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Find at least 1 solution to fill a square 5x5 with five pentominoes where all the pieces are different. Take a photo. |
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| There are at least 10 solutions. | ||
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ACTIVITY 3: MAKE A PUZZLE |
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Go
to this web
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| Go to pentominoes and solve this puzzle: | ||
| Fill a rectangle 6x10 with the 12 pentominoes!! | ||
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CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES
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Go
to pentominoes and there are more activities for you!!
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| 1. Building congruent figures | 4. Working with perimeters | |
| 2. Making stairs | 5. Making rectangles | |
| 3. Naming pentominoes |
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| Collect information on slide planet 3 of your PPT. | ||
| Complete the L (What I have learned) part of the KWL grid of pentominoes. | ||
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