This Kidspiration template can be used to help students develop their spatial reasoning skills. The template provides students with an example to get them started, and the task requires students to develop a strategy for recognizing when pentominoes are merely transformations of another pentomino. When students have built all twelve pentominoes, teachers can challenge them to think about which pentominoes, when cut out, would fold into an open box. Also included is a Kidspiration file "Pentominoes Example", which provides all 12 solutions.

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