Education Development Center
Finding Parallelogram Vertices
Four is the perfect number—if you're talking about parallelograms. Scholars determine a possible fourth vertex of a parallelogram in the coordinate plane given the coordinates of three vertices. They read a conversation...
Education Development Center
Proof with Parallelogram Vertices
Geometric figures are perfect to use for proofs. Scholars prove conjectures about whether given points lie on a triangle and about midpoints. They use a provided dialogue among fictional students to frame their responses.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Tangram Cutout
Challenge the spatial thinking of your young mathematicians with this printable tangram puzzle. Using different sized triangles, squares, and parallelograms, children must figure out how to fit all the shapes together to create a square.
Curated OER
Symmetries of a Quadrilateral I
Learners examine the properties of quadrilaterals from the point of view of rigid motion. Different types of quadrilaterals are characterized by their symmetries, so learners explore the symmetries of a described quadrilateral to...
Illustrative Mathematics
What is a Trapezoid? (Part 1)
Challenge your class to construct a definition for trapezoids. Looking at four examples and four non-examples, students individually create definitions and use them to classify an unknown shape. Allow for small group and whole-class...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Properties of Parallelograms
This activity shows the student how to construct a parallelogram using Cabri Geometry. Questions are asked after the construction.
Analyze Math
Analyze Math: Parallelogram Problems
Learners explore the geometry topic of parallelograms. The word problems include detailed solutions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Perimeter of Parallelograms: Around a Trampoline
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students move the points on the parallelogram to determine the perimeter. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Parallelograms
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will move the points on the parallelogram to explore what happens to the slope. Click learn more to watch a video and click challenge me to answer a practice question.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Quadrilaterals That Are Parallelograms
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will move the interactice quadrilateral to determine which quads are parallelograms. Click learn more to watch a video and click challenge me to answer a practice question.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Quadrilateral Parallelogram
A "three star geometry problem" requiring knowledge of how to complete geometric proofs and some prior math knowledge. This problem asks to prove that the mid points of any quadrilateral form a parallelogram.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Parallelogram Property
A "three star geometry problem" requiring knowledge of how to complete geometric proofs properties of parallelogram.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Perimeters, Areas, and Slopes Oh, My!
In this activity, students create geometric figures, and use analytic and coordinate geometry to investigate their attributes. They go through the process of proving that a quadrilateral is a parallelogram.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Parallelogram Classification
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the classify different shapes by changing the points on the given shape. Click learn more to watch a video and click challenge me to answer a practice question.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Parallelogram Classification
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the interactive activity to complete the venn diagram. Click learn more to watch a video and click challenge me to answer a practice question.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Transmographer
Shodor Education Foundation provides an applet that "allows the user to explore the world of transformations, reflections, and rotations. It allows the user to translate triangles, squares, and parallelograms on both the x and y-axes."
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Platonic Solids
A "three star geometry problem" requiring knowledge of how to complete geometric proofs to prove that there are no more than five regular convex polyhedra.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Area of the Trapeziod
This activity is a based on an activity I saw in Exploring Geometry with the Geometer's Sketchpad. Student will construct a trapeziod and then use rotation to create a parallelogram from the trapeziod. The follow up questions lead the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today Thirsty for Oil
In this activity, students can use the USA TODAY Infograph 'Thirsty for oil' to explore the area of a trapezoid and determine how to find area. Students will find the area of a parallelogram and use this to determine a formula for the...
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Hidden Polygon Activity
On this site students are instructed to locate different types of polygons on triangle grid paper. This page can be printed so that students can actually draw them. It also gives a definitions link for each polygon.