Week of 3/9- Quadrilaterals Review

This week we had a test on Wednesday. Because of this we spent the days leading up to the test reviewing for it. Some examples of quadrilaterals are polygons, rhombus’, rectangles, squares, kites and trapezoids. Each quadrilateral has specific rules to their angles and sides. Knowing the rules is vital in being able to solve quadrilaterals in geometry because many quadrilateral problems involve solving for the angles and side of different quadrilaterals. You also use these rules to define a quadrilateral when given a problem involving plotting points.

Once I knew the rules for each quadrilateral I found it pretty easy to be able to find the missing angles and/or sides of a quadrilateral. However, for some reason plotting the points and defining what the specific quadrilateral was, was very difficult for me. I didn’t quite understand what the exact rules to defining the quadrilateral. I didn’t know what it meant when they had the same slop or opposite slopes, etc.