All About Squares

Feb 2, 2020 | Hinsdale

Today's Square Fun Facts Come from KidsMathGamesOnline.com!

Square

The diagonals of a square bisecting at 90 degrees

  • A square is a polygon with 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).

  • The perimeter of a square is 4 times the length of one side.

  • A square 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.

  • Opposite sides of a square are parallel.

  • The internal angles of a square add to 360 degrees.

  • A square has 4 lines of reflectional symmetry.

  • Square shapes are often used by humans for design and engineering purposes such as town planning.

  • cube features six square faces and in many ways is like a square, only in three dimensions rather than two.

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