Sunday, April 4, 2010

Exploration - Diagonals to Quadrilaterals I

Diagonals to Quadrilaterals I

This activity allows you to discover what types of quadrilaterals can be formed when the diagonals meet in a certain way.

Two line segments can be drawn to intersect in various ways:
  • they could be perpendicular
  • they could bisect one another, or both
Depending on the arrangement of these segments, various quadrilaterals can be formed by connecting the endpoints of the segments.
  • Click to show perpendicular diagonals
  • Click to show perpendicular diagonals, one bisected
  • Click to show congruent diagonals
  • Click to show bisected diagonals
  • Explore what types of quadrilaterals you can make by moving the red dots.
Click for Diagonals to Quadrilaterals I

For each constraint above, list the types of quadrilaterals that you formed.

19 comments:

  1. There were tons of different quadrilaterals that were possible. i made squares, rectangles, kites, trapazoids and other quadrilaterals.

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  2. there were alot of diffrent shapes but i mad squares and parrelellograms ...i cant spell

    -jc

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  3. there were many different quadrilaterals like squares, parallelograms, rectanges, kites and etc.
    Christie C

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  4. i had a kite and then a kite and then a rectangle and then a square

    -Karen Oliveira :)

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  5. I made a kit, a sqaure, then a rectangle and another square

    - JILL CHRISTIAN

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  6. I made squares, parallelograms and trapezoids(man, I'm the queen of quads...)
    -Rebeca Eller

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  7. out of all of the constraints, i was able to make a rhombus, a kite, a square, a rectangle, and a parallelogram.

    -bryan

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  8. i made kites, rectangles, squares, rhombuses, parallelograms, an isosceles trapezoid, and all sorts of other, unclassified quadrilaterals.

    ~katie demouth

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  9. I made many shapes like a square, a kite, a rectangle, and parallelograms.
    -Alison Reisert

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  10. I made kites, parallelograms, trapezoids, squares, and rectangles

    -Rachael Pesce :)

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  11. Out of all the arrangements I made basically everything, kite, square, rectangle, trapezoid, and a parrallelogram.

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  12. i made kites, rectangles, squares, rhombuses, trapezoids, and many similar quadrilaterals.

    SHANNON KENNEY

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  13. For all the shapes you can make all kinds of quadrolaterals like kites and trapezoid and a square,and parrallelograms

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  14. i made kite, parallelogram and square
    timmy

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  15. I made a kite, square, rectangle, and a trapezoid.
    Jonny

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  16. I made a rectangle, rhombus, tapezoid, but i didn't get the chance to make an isosceles triangle.

    -erin vb

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  17. I was able to make rectangles, squares, trapezoids, rhombuses, a kite, and a parallelogram aliong with other various quadrilaterals...

    -Steffani C

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  18. I made a rectangle, kite, rhombus, and trapezoid, and a square.

    Greih Wilson-McClain

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