Classifying quadrilaterals worksheet
Work out the four sides as vectors. Equal slopes mean parallel, equal lengths mean equal sides, and a zero dot product means a right angle, and those three tests separate every quadrilateral there is.
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How to do these
- All four sides have length 4.
- Both pairs are parallel.
- And they meet at right angles.
The answer is Square.
Where students go wrong
Stopping at parallelogram. A square is one too, and so is a rhombus and a rectangle; the question wants the most specific name that fits, so keep testing.
Also called identifying quadrilaterals, quadrilaterals on the coordinate plane or square rectangle rhombus parallelogram.