Naming quadrilaterals, step by step
Every shape on this sheet has four sides, so counting them gets a child nowhere.
The question
rectanglerhombussquare
What is this shape called?
Name this shape
sides:4
sides:4
quadrilateral
rhombusis alsoa parallelogram
- Count the sides first — that is what almost every shape name is built from, and it is one number rather than a picture to recognize.
- 4 sides makes it a quadrilateral — and that is where naming gets more careful, because the four-sided shapes have families inside families.
- This one is a rhombus — and it is ALSO a parallelogram. Being one does not stop it being the others; the question wants the most exact name that fits.
How it works.
- 01
Count the sides first — that is what almost every shape name is built from, and it is one number rather than a picture to recognize.
- 02
4 sides makes it a quadrilateral — and that is where naming gets more careful, because the four-sided shapes have families inside families.
- 03
This one is a rhombus — and it is ALSO a parallelogram. Being one does not stop it being the others; the question wants the most exact name that fits.