Pentominoes come from the fictional story of William the Conqueror and the dauphin of France who were playing chess...The story tells the tale that the dauphin threw the chessboard at this opponent in a fit of frustration and how the son of William the Conqueror responded by breaking the chessboard over the dauphin's head - - breaking it into thirteen pieces, twelve pentominoes and one square!
We used the pentominoes to try to create one large rectangle using ALL of the pieces (no throwing, or breaking over heads!)
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