Tuesday, February 09, 2016

Frustrating Rectangles

Agenda:
1 - Chemistry Test OR Assignment due Wednesday - you get to choose how you will best show your understanding of classroom chemistry
2 - Pentominoes - How many rectangles using the 12 pentominoes can you make? Remember the total area will be 60.
3 - Short week - teacher's convention.
4 - What word will you do for your periodic table art next week?


School Science Fair next Wednesday!!!!!!!!


Highlights
What did you learn today?
We struggled through trying to make rectangles with 12 pentominoes. We have found 2 solutions so far ....
How did you show what you learned?
We used our cut out pentominoes to try and create rectangles and there were plastic pieces as well.
What do you need to learn next?
We want to work tomorrow to find more rectangle solutions. We hear there are 2339 solutions.