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Activity
Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Polyominoes Fun With Dominoes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For students who have ever played dominoes and Tetris, polyominoes will strike them as a great deal of fun. Teachers will see the educational benefits of working with similar and congruent shapes and rotating them in a plane. Exploration...
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Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Bricks Activity, Teacher Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Builders of brick walls need to be especially aware of fault lines which can easily lead to the collapse of the wall. Students are challenged, here, to use polyminoes to design patterns for brick walls which do not contain fault lines....