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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Quadrilaterals (Quadrangles)!

Today in math we reviewed lines, line segments, and rays, and found out that two rays joined together at the vertex makes an angle. Furthermore, putting 4 angles together can make many different four-sided figures like:

Next we got to test this out for ourselves using geoboards. Each rubber band represented a line segment, so students created different shapes and quadrilaterals!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

so a square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square? and a rhombus is a parrallelogram but a parrallelogram is not a rhombus?

then what is cos 45? I need my calculator for that

Matt #162 said...

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Talia said...

Those are some cool shapes on the geo board.