Slanted Squares
- Author:
- Ben Sparks
Draw a square
Using the canvas below, draw a square (you can use the segment tool, or the 'square' tool).
Draw a square
What area is your square?
What area is your square?
Draw a slanted square
Construct another square, but this time make sure that it doesn't have horizontal or vertical sides.
(A 'slanted square'?)
Draw a slanted square
Describe your slanted square
How would you describe your slanted square? What area is your slanted square? Explain how you know.
Square of area 10
Try to draw a square of area 10.
Square of area 10
Draw more squares!
On the canvas below try constructing as many different area squares as you can.
(you can zoom in and out with a mouse wheel, and scroll around the canvas to find more space)
What square areas can you make? What square areas can't you make?
How could you calculate the area of a 'slanted square' quickly?
Draw more squares!
Constructed Areas
Type in any areas that you have made below:
Non-constructed Areas
Which areas can't be made?
How to calculate area quickly
Describe how you could calculate the area of any slanted square. You can use an example to explain if you want to.