Blog post to explain basic mathematical shape/terms.

24 August 2020
Math
Shapes. What makes a shape a shape? well, that's what I'm going to tell you. shapes are made up of all sorts of lines and angles. Everything we see has some sort of shape in it. if we look at it we can see two-dimensional shapes like an oval, square, rectangle and three-dimensional shapes as well like a prism and cylinder etc everywhere we go.

We all know that a square has four sides but what else makes a square?

A square has 4 sides of equal length and 4 right angle corners (90-degree corners). Because it has 4 sides of equal length, a square is a regular quadrilateral. A square is also a rectangle with equal sides and a rhombus with right angles. The area of a square is equal to the length of one side to the power of two (length squared). It has a larger area than all other quadrilaterals with the same perimeter. The diagonals of a square bisect each other at 90 degrees and are perpendicular.




A rectangle is a shape with four sides and four corners. The corners are all right angles. It follows that the lengths of the pairs of sides opposite each other must be equal.




A parallelogram is a shape that has four sides, the sides opposite of each other well never overlap each other. the sides opposite of each other are equal. all sides add up to 180-degrees.




All sides have equal length. Opposite sides are parallel, and the opposite angles are equal (it is a parallelogram ). The altitude is the distance at right angles to two sides.