Curated OER
How Do You Find the Base of a Parallelogram if You Know the Area and Height?
There are three variables in the formula for a parallelogram. Two of the values are given in this problem. Find the third value. Identify what each of the variables means. Match up the given values to the variables. Then solve for the...
Curated OER
How Do You Find the Area of a Parallelogram?
So you are trying to tell me that a parallelogram is a rectangle in disguise? Wow! And I can use a similar formula of the area of a rectangle to find the area of a parallelogram? Wow! Ok, show me how! A=bh. So simple really.
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What is the Formula for the Area of a Circle?
Cut up a circle and make a parallelogram! What? No way! Yes way! Watch the instructor illustrate just how to cut up the circle and get that parallelogram to then get the formula for the area of a circle. It really works! Base,...
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What is a Rhombus?
A closed figure with four sides means it's a quadrilateral. Each of the different types of quadrilaterals have special properties. The instructor in this video explains the special properties of a rhombus. Parallel sides and congruent...
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What is a Rectangle?
What are the characteristics and properties of a quadrilateral that make it a rectangle? Four sides? Right angles? Parallel sides? Watch this video and follow along as the instructor explains the terms and properties that make a...
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What is a Quadrilateral?
What's so special about quadrilaterals? There are five special types, yes, five. Can you name them? The instructor in this video diagrams and illustrates the special types of quadrilaterals and explains what makes each one special.
Curated OER
What is a Parallelogram?
A rectangle, a rhombus, a square, a trapezoid - are any of these a parallelogram? What are the criteria that make a shape a parallelogram? It has something to do with parallel sides, congruent sides, and congruent angles. Help your young...
Curated OER
How Do You Classify Quadrilaterals?
A rectangle, a rhombus, a square, a trapezoid, and a parallelogram, are these quadrilaterals? What are the criteria that make and shape a quadrilateral? It has something to do with parallel sides, congruent sides, and congruent angles....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Worked Examples: Geometry: Geometry: Triangles and Parallelograms
Students explore the properties of triangles and parallelograms in this video tutorial.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Quadrilaterals: Area of a Parallelogram
Showing that the area of a parallelogram is base times height.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Overview of Quadrilaterals
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video overview on the properties of various quadrilaterals.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Intro to Quadrilaterals
Sal Khan discovers attributes and features of four-sided shapes, including parallelograms, rhombuses, rectangles, and squares. [8:06]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Coordinate Geometry of Parallelograms: Lesson 3
This lesson [7:43] will demonstrate how to use slope, midpoint, and distance formulas to determine from the coordinates of the vertices if a quadrilateral is a parallelogram in a coordinate plane. It is 3 of 6 in the series titled...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Coordinate Geometry of Parallelograms: Lesson 6
This lesson [7:55] will demonstrate how to use slope, midpoint, and distance formulas to determine from the coordinates of the vertices if a quadrilateral is a parallelogram in a coordinate plane. It is 6 of 6 in the series titled...