Pentominoes

This unit is made up of a number of mini activities. After finding the 12 pentominoes pupils use the shapes in the following activities:

• Find the symmetry and rotational symmetry of the shapes
• Investigate which pentominoes will tessellate without being rotated, then which will tessellate when rotated
• Fit the shapes into varying sizes of rectangles

The unit contains pentomino shapes to download and print out.

Mathematical investigationpentominoestransition projectsymmetryrotationaltessellation