Other Examples:
- A child differentiates a typical hexagon as different from a typical rhombus because it has 6 versus 4 sides.
- A child identifies a rhombus and trapezoid as different types of quadrilaterals than a rectangle.
Help your student become a(n) Shape Recognizer—More Shapes
Explorations and discussions involve more than the shapes typically named in our culture, such as typical examples of hexagons (6-sided shapes, often with all sides and angles the same), rhombuses (four equal sides), and trapezoids (1 pair of parallel sides).