Pentomino Lesson Plans, Class Activities, Science Fair Projects and Background Information

Pentominos Lesson Plans, Class Activities, Science Fair Projects and Background Information For Primary, Elementary, Middle and High School Students & Teachers

Pentomino Experiments

Definition

A pentomino is composed of five congruent squares connected along their sides. There are 18 possible combinations.

The 18 pentomino combinations possible

Background Information

Pentomino - Wikipedia [View Experiment]

K-12 Experiments, Labs, Lesson Plans and Science Fair Projects
Break the Pentomino Code! [View Experiment]
Pentominoes Activity [View Experiment]
Flipping around Pentominoes [View Experiment]
Teaching With Pentominoes [View Experiment]
Problem Solving with Pentominos [View Experiment]
Pentominos Activity [View Experiment]
Try out this Java applet and play with the pentominoes online (Java Applet) [View Experiment]
Play with Pentominoes (Java Applet) [View Experiment]
Pentomino online puzzles and games[View Experiment]
Pentomino games [View Experiment]
Lesson Plan: The Geometry of Pentominoes [View Experiment]
Tiling with Shapes and Tessellations in Nature (science fair project) [View Experiment]
Using Katamino and Pentominoes at KS2 [View Experiment]

Advanced Articles and Studies
Pentominoes: A First Player Win [View Experiment]
Pentomino configurations and solutions [View Experiment]
Effects of gender differences and spatial abilities within a digital pentominoes game [View Experiment]
Pentominoes represented as matrices with the manipulations of the pentominoes represented as matrix addition and multiplication. [View Experiment]
Eric Harshbarger's Pentominoes Page [View Experiment]

Theses and Dissertations
The Game of Pentomino [View Experiment]
Towards a Quasi-Endgame-Based Bao Solver [View Experiment]