This activity investigates how you might make squares and pentominoes from Polydron.
If you had 36 cubes, what different cuboids could you make?
How can you put five cereal packets together to make different
shapes if you must put them face-to-face?
Well done to everyone who engaged
themselves in this challenge. Here are just some of the solutions
we had emailed to us. Eskdale School sent in two solutions that I'm
James, from St. John French Immersion
School in Ontario sent in this good one (and like Jack and Gill
that went up the hill he used pails instead of buckets):
Rajeev from Fair Field School sent in some
very thorough thoughts and ideas as follows:
He also showed how these can all be found by
exploring Pascal's Triangle. Well Done.