Student Instructions
1.
2. Read the problem carefully.
3. Get out your pattern blocks or use the
and
tools.
4. Use any combination of red trapezoids, blue rhombuses, and/or green triangles to make a parallelogram THREE DIFFERENT ways.
5. Take a
of your FIRST parallelogram and add to your work.
6. Use the
tool to fill in the data table to tell how many trapezoids, rhombuses, and triangles you used to make your parallelogram.
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 for your second AND third parallelograms.
8. Use the
tool to label your pictures 1, 2, and 3 so we can match your pictures to the data table.
9. Check your work.
10.