Exploring the Diagonals of Special Quadrilaterals

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Reflection Questions:

 

  1. Click on each "Show construction objects" button to determine how the sketches were made so that the dynamic objects retain their various properties.

  1. Can a rhombus be a parallelogram?  Can a triangle be a trapezoid?

  1. Develop a sketch in GSP that will create a square by starting with its diagonals rather than its sides!

HINT: Note that a square shares all of the diagonal properties of both a rectangle and a rhombus.

 

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