Exploring Quadrilaterals: Sides, Diagonals and Angle

 

Investigate the following questions and use the given chart to organize your findings

!  What are some attributes about the sides and the diagonals of each figure?

!  How do they relate to one another?

!  Are they perpendicular? Parallel? When? Always?

!  Are they congruent? Always?

!   How do the angles relate to each other? (Those formed by the sides and the diagonals

 

 

Sides

(opposite and adjacent)

Diagonals

(length and angles formed)

Angles

(Measures, Relationships, Sums)

Parallelogram

 

 

 

 

Rectangle

 

 

 

 

Square

 

 

 

 

Rhombus

 

 

 

 

Non-Isosceles

Trapezoid

 

 

 

Isosceles

Trapezoid

 

 

 

Kite