Made by joining five squares, pentominoes are ideal for developing spatial thinking. In particular they may be used to stimulate students to explore ideas of similarity, congruence, transformations (flip, slide, turn) and tessellation just to name a few.
Before giving out the set , provide your students with the chance to discover all the pentominoes for themselves. Pentominoes are an ideal manipulative as they may be used to develop important mathematical concepts and provide enrichment opportunities for more able students.
The set of 60 contains 5 sets of different coloured pentominoes.