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Lesson 3: Defining Special Quadrilaterals
  • 3.1 Constructing Rectangles
  • 3.2 Exploring Special Quadrilaterals
  • 3.3 Summary: Defining Special Quadrilaterals
    geometric reasoning

    Constructing Rectangles

     

    Task 1

    Recall how you constructed a square using Turtle Blocks in an earlier lesson. Now use the Blocks to construct a rectangle with sides 60 unit and 90 unit. Write (in your notebook) the final set of commands used to construct the rectangle.

     

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    1) Are you sure that the shape you have made is a rectangle?

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    2) How do you know?

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    Task 2



    Construct any rectangle which is different from the one you constructed in Task 1, and also a square.

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    1) What are the similarities and differences between the command set given to construct a square and a rectangle?
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    2) What are the similarities and differences between a square and a rectangle?
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    3) Look around you. Does everyone’s rectangle look the same? Why or why not? What are the properties that are same across everyone’s rectangle and what differs?
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    4) Based on this, Describe in your own words what a rectangle is.
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    Extension Task 1

    Construct a rhombus whose side length is 70 units and one of the angles is 130°. Write (in your notebook) the final set of commands used to construct the shape.

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    1) Explain each step of the construction.

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    2) Are you sure that the shape you have made is a rhombus? How do you know?
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    Extension Task 2

     

    Construct a parallelogram.

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