D. McKae Teaching introduction to rectangles/squares from Dave McKae on Vimeo.
The past 2 weeks we have been learning about parallelograms and now we are transitioning into special types of parallelograms, mainly rectangles and squares. We want the students to understand that all of the characteristics we learned about parallelograms still apply to these shapes because they are also parallelograms. Furthermore, students will learn new properties of these shapes to help them solve for missing sides lengths, segments of diagonals, and angles.
The students were asked to collaborate with a partner and list all of the characteristics they could think of for each shape.
