Lesson Plan: Properties of Rhombuses
This lesson plan includes the objectives and prerequisites of the lesson teaching students how to identify the properties of a rhombus and use them to find unknown angles or lengths.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- understand the properties of rhombuses:
- all of the sides of a rhombus have equal lengths,
- the opposite sides of a rhombus are parallel to one another,
- the opposite angles in a rhombus are equal in size,
- the two diagonals of a rhombus bisect one another and are also perpendicular to one another,
- the diagonals of a rhombus both bisect a pair of opposite angles,
- understand the relationship between parallelograms and rhombuses,
- solve problems using the properties of rhombuses.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- properties of parallelograms,
- properties of rectangles.