Week 2: Two-dimensional Figures (Students Sample)

"Math in the Real World"

Once I started looking for shapes, I felt like everything was a rectangle or square. I was really hard for me to find a parallelogram. 

1. This picture in my living room makes a rectangle. I see 4 right angles. I see 2 pair of parallel sides. 

2. The rug in my kitchen is also a rectangle. I see 4 right angles. I see 2 pair of parallel sides. 

3. In my room my monogram makes a square. I see 4 right angle and equal sides. I see 2 pair of parallel sides. 

4. A picture frame is a square. I see 4 equal sides. I see 4 right angles. I see 2 pair of parallel sides. 

5. The bottom of my lamp is made of rhombuses. I see 4 equal sides. I see opposite parallel sides.  

6. The lamp shade on my mom's lamp is a trapezoid. I see 1 opposite side is parallel. 

7. In my brother's room, I thought the chevy symbol looked like a parallelogram without the top and bottom pieces. A parallelogram has 2 parallel sides.