Symmetry of Polynominoes

Polynominoes are figures made up of square units connected by edges.

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Tiling with Tetrominoes

Let’s consider tiling square grids with tetrominoes.  Pieces can be rotated, reflected, and repeated as needed.

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Complete Scrambles

Consider trying to scramble a string of numbers, say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, but with the requirement that none of the numbers can end up where they started.  Let’s define this as a complete scramble.

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Cube Solids

For all questions in this problem, let’s ignore the effects of gravity, which means higher unit cubes can float in space without lower unit cubes to support them.

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Covering Squares

We choose one space in a rectangular grid made of unit squares, and we count the number of squares or rectangles that cover this space.

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Counting Rectangles Extended

Continuing from last week’s problem about counting squares, let’s look at the related problem of counting the number of rectangles in a grid, with extensions

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Counting Squares Extended

Consider the widely known problem of counting the number of squares in a square grid.  Today we will try to extend the problem.

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Tower of Hanoi

Tower of Hanoi is a one-player game using three vertical rods and a number of disks, all of different diameters.  The goal of the game is to move the entire pile of disks onto one of the other two pegs.

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Connecting Letters

Connecting letters on the left to their matching letters on the right without crossing any lines.

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