Pentominoes provide an excellent opportunity to teach and practice creative and flexible thinking. This post explains how you can teach a lesson about pentominoes in your classroom, which is sure to get your students working hard to figure out all of the different pentomino shapes!

Generating Pentominoes

How many unique pentominoes can you generate with five squares? Exploring that question is a great way to introduce a unit on pentominoes. Using pentominoes

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Creative Thinking: Fluency

Fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration can be thought of as the cornerstones of creative thinking. Fluency is all about generating a lot of different ideas.

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