LESSON: Classifying Quadrilaterals
Objectives/Vocab
Objectives
- Classify quadrilaterals by angles
- Classify quadrilaterals by sides
- Draw specified quadrilaterals using ruler and protractor
- Find unknown angle measures in given quadrilaterals
Vocabulary
- Quadrilateral
- closed figure with four sides and four vertices.
- Trapezoid
- Quadrilateral with one pair of opposite sides parallel.
- Rectangle
- Parallelogram with four right angles.
- Parallelogram
- Quadrilateral with opposite sides congruent and parallel.
- Square
- Four congruent sides and four congruent angles.
- Rhombus
- Parallelogram with four congruent sides.
- Parallel
- lines that are equidistant apart and will never intersect
- Congruent
- exactly the same, having the same measure