Classifying Triangles
Which type of triangle has all side of the same length?
What is an equilateral triangle
Which quadrilateral has only two pairs of parallel sides
What is a trapezoid
A triangle has sides that are all the same length. How can you determine what kind of triangle it is? Explain.
What is an Equilateral Triangle because all sides are equal
What is the name for a triangle that has no equal sides and no equal angles?
What is a scalene triangle
What kind of triangle has two equal sides and one side of a different length?
What is an isosceles triangle
What is the name of the two parallelograms with four right angles?
What is a rectangle and square
Gina has a necklace with a charm that has one pair of parallel sides. What type of quadrilateral is her charm? Explain.
What is a trapezoid because it has exactly one pair of parallel sides
True or False - All rectangles are squares
What is false because all sides of a rectangle are not equal
What is the total measure, in degrees, of a triangle?
What is 180°
Which quadrilateral could have side lengths 5 cm, 3 cm, 5 cm, 3 cm?
What is a rectangle?
Are rhombuses always, sometimes, or never also parallelograms? Explain.
What is a rhombus is always a parallelogram because it has two pairs of opposite sides that are parallel
What are the two ways that you can classify a triangle?
What is by side lengths and by angles
A triangle has two angles that measure 90° and 40° . What is the measure of the third angle?
What is 50°
Why is a rhombus different than a sqaure?
What is a rhombus has 4 equal sides but does not always have right angles
Give an example of a quadrilateral that is not a parallelogram. Explain.
What is a trapezoid because it only has one pair of parallel sides
What shape has two pairs of opposite sides that are parallel and has all sides of equal length but does NOT have four right angles?
What is a rhombus
A triangle has angles that measure 90° , 30° and 60°. Give two classifications of this triangle.
What is right and scalene
List all the names that correctly describe a square
What is square, rectangle, rhombus, parallelogram, and quadrilateral
Give two ways that a rhombus and square are similar. Give two reasons of how they are different.
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Similarities:
- Both have 4 sides and are equal
- They are quadrilaterals or parallelograms
Differences:
- A square always has 4 right angles
- A rhombus can have different angle sizes
Name ALL the shapes that are parallelograms
What is a rectangle, rhombus and square