SQUARES AND RECTANGLES

BY GRACIE HANCOCK,

SQUARE CHARACTERISTICS

• Have four congruent right angles
• Have four congruent sides
• Have sides congruent in length
• Have sides that are perpendicular to eachother
• A square is a regular quadrilateral

RECTANGLE CHARACTERISTICS

• Have four congruent right angles
• Have opposite sides that are parallel
• Have opposite angles that are congruent
• Have opposite sides that are congruent
• Have consecutive angles that are supplementry

FUN FACTS ABOUT SQUARES

• A square can also be considered a rectangle and a rhombus
• Six squares make up a cube
• The internal angles of a square add to 360 degrees
• The sides of a square bisect each other at 90 degrees
• The perimeter of a square is 4 times the length of one side

FUN FACTS ABOUT RECTANGLES

• In a rectangle, the two long sides are always parallel line segments
• The two short sides are always parallel line segments
• To figure out the area of a rectangle, multiply the length by the width
• If you move a rectangle through space, you get a solid form
• called a rectangular prism