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Using wood blocks (trominoes from three squares, like dominoes from two), arranged as a tower, a game of coordination and experimentation begins as players try not to topple the stack.
Pick up one of the pieces of wood and begin posing some questions about it.
Let the questions flow and get pursued. Try to encourage adjustment rather than abandonment when a line of questioning appears to run out. For example a five by five square can't be made because each block contributed three squares of area and there are 25 to be covered, so there must be a hole. OK, given there's a hole, can you make a square ?
Create a competition to produce all rectangles up to side length 10.
Perhaps use a digital camera or the camera in a mobile phone to catch arrangements quickly. A drawing record may sap energy that might be used more effectively pursuing the task.