Is it a square or a rectangle? (view)
Units included with this Open Author resource:
- Examples and Non-examples to identify properties
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- Learning goals:
- Students will explain how a square is also a rectangle.
- Keywords:
- quadrilateral, attribute, square, rectangle, area, sum of angles, properties
- Interior angle sum
- Is a square a rectangle or a rectangle a square
- Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL)
- Geometry
Summary
Students will look at examples and non-examples of squares and rectangles to determine properties of the two shapes. Students practice drawing the shapes with specific dimensions and building up to is a square also a rectangle and is a rectangle also a square?