Lesson: Properties and Special Cases of Parallelograms Mathematics

Students will be able to

• identify quadrilaterals that are parallelograms,
• recognize the following properties of a parallelogram:
  • opposite sides are parallel,
  • opposite sides are equal in length,
  • opposite angles are equal in measure,
  • the sum of two adjacent angles is ,
  • the diagonals bisect each other,
• use the properties of parallelograms to find missing lengths or angles,
• identify the following special cases of a parallelogram:
  • rectangles,
  • rhombuses,
  • squares,
• solve problems involving the special cases of parallelograms.