Pentomino Puzzler (Geometry)
Overview
In this activity, students will work in pairs to create a set of 3Doodled pentominoes and then assemble them to solve the 6x10 rectangle. Pentominoes are tetris-like shapes that your students will enjoy designing and working with, as they're problem solving. The focus of this lesson is on the "Standards for Mathematical Practice," which compose the critical components of thinking and reasoning.
Materials
3Doodler (1 per pair)scissors
(1 per pair)sandpaper or nail file
(1 per pair) Pentomino worksheet (1 per pair)
Objectives
STUDENTS WILL
learn about the 12-pentomino shapes.
be able to recognize and identify the 12-pentomino shapes.
Verify experimentally the properties of rotations, reflections, and translations.
3Doodle a set of pentominoes.
use pentominoes to attempt to solve the 6 x10 rectangle puzzle.