Composing Quadrilaterals
What do you get when you combine two triangles?
A quadrilaterals
How can you break a square into two shapes?
By cutting it in half diagonally to make two triangles.
What type of quadrilateral has opposite sides that are equal and parallel?
Parallelogram
What shape has four sides and is not a square or rectangle?
Rhombus or Trapezoid
Name a shape you can create by joining two rectangles.
A parallelogram or larger rectangle.
What shapes can you create by decomposing a rectangle?
Two smaller rectangles, two squares, or two triangles.
What do you call a quadrilateral with only one pair of parallel sides?
Trapezoid
Can you name a quadrilateral that has no equal sides?
Trapezoid
If you have four equal sides, what quadrilateral can you create?
A square
If you have a parallelogram, how can you decompose it?
By cutting it into two triangles.
Identify a quadrilateral that has four right angles.
Rectangle and Square
What is the name of a quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides and four angles?
Trapezoid
Can you make a quadrilateral using two squares? What shape might it be?
A rectangle
What happens when you decompose a trapezoid?
You can get a triangle and a rectangle.
What is the name of a quadrilateral with all sides equal and all angles equal?
Square
Which shape is a quadrilateral but does not have any right angles?
A rhombus or a parallelogram.
If you have one rectangle and one triangle, what kind of quadrilateral can you form?
A trapezoid
Can you name three different shapes you can get by decomposing a square?
Two triangles, a rectangle, or four smaller squares.
Which quadrilateral has two pairs of equal sides but does not have right angles?
Rhombus
Identify a shape that is a quadrilateral and has two pairs of opposite sides that are equal.
Parallelogram