We tired to fill a circle with cubes. We realized this task was hard because it is impossible to fill a shaped that is curved with a shape that has straight edges.
Next, we filled a triangle with shapes. We tried to come up with various ways. As you can see in the pictures there were several DIFFERENT ways to fill the triangle. We kept tallies of the # of different shapes we used in our math journals.
Next, we filled hexagons with a variety of shapes. LOOK at all the combinations. Wow!
Finally, we we used combinations of shapes to create a new 7 sided shape.