6-5 Rhombi And Squares

[Klacee Sawatzky]

Compareproperties of squares and rhombi to properties of other quadrilaterals by answering each question. Write a brief explanation for each answer.

(a) Describe a property of squares that is also a property of rectangles.

(b) Describe a property of squares that is not a property of rectangles.

(c) Describe a property of rhombi that is also a property of parallelograms.

(d) Describe a property of rhombi that is not a property of parallelograms.

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Decide whether each of these statements is always, sometimes, or never true. If it is sometimes true, draw and describe a figure for which the statement is true and another figure for which the statement is not true.

The purpose of this task is to have students reason about different kinds of shapes based on their defining attributes and to understand the relationship between different categories of shapes that share some defining attributes. In cases when the list of defining attributes for the first shape is a subset of the defining attributes of the second shape, then the statements will always be true. In cases when the list of defining attributes for the second shape is a subset of the defining attributes of the first shape, then the statements will sometimes be true.

When this task is used in instruction, teachers should be prioritizing the Standard for Mathematical Practice 6: Attend to Precision. Students should base their reasoning by referring to side length, side relationships, and angle measures.

This is always true. Squares are quadrilaterals with 4 congruent sides and 4 right angles, and they also have two sets of parallel sides. Parallelograms are quadrilaterals with two sets of parallel sides. Since squares must be quadrilaterals with two sets of parallel sides, then all squares are parallelograms.

In geometry, rhombicuboctahedron is an Archimedean solid with 26 faces, consisting of 8 equilateral triangles and 18 squares. It is named by Johannes Kepler in his 1618 Harmonices Mundi, being short for truncated cuboctahedral rhombus, with cuboctahedral rhombus being his name for a rhombic dodecahedron.[1]

The rhombicuboctahedron is an Archimedean solid, and it has Catalan solid as its dual, deltoidal icositetrahedron. The elongated square gyrobicupola is a polyhedron that is similar to a rhombicuboctahedron, but it is not an Archimedean solid because it is not vertex-transitive. The skeleton of a rhombicuboctahedron can be represented as a graph. The rhombicuboctahedron is found in diverse cultures in architecture, toys, the arts, and elsewhere.

The rhombicuboctahedron may be constructed from a cube by drawing a smaller one in the middle of each face, parallel to the cube's edges. After removing the edges of a cube, the squares may be joined by adding more squares adjacent between them, and the corners may be filled by the equilateral triangles. Another way to construct the rhombicuboctahedron is by attaching two regular square cupolas into the bases of a regular octagonal prism.[2]

A rhombicuboctahedron may also be known as an expanded octahedron or expanded cube. This is because the rhombicuboctahedron may also be constructed by separating and pushing away the faces of a cube or a regular octahedron from their centroid (in blue or red, respectively, in the animation), and filling between them with the squares and equilateral triangles. This construction process is known as expansion.[3] By using all of these methods above, the rhombicuboctahedron has 8 equilateral triangles and 16 squares as its faces.[4] Relatedly, the rhombicuboctahedron may also be constructed by cutting all edges and vertices of either cube or a regular octahedron, a process known as rectification.[5]

The rhombicuboctahedron has the same symmetry as a cube and regular octahedron, the octahedral symmetry O h \displaystyle \mathrm O _\mathrm h .[11] However, the rhombicuboctahedron also has a second set of distortions with six rectangular and sixteen trapezoidal faces, which do not have octahedral symmetry but rather pyritohedral symmetry T h \displaystyle \mathrm T _\mathrm h , so they are invariant under the same rotations as the tetrahedron but different reflections.[12] It is centrosymmetric, meaning its symmetric is interchangeable by the appearance of inversion center. It is also non-chiral; that is, it is congruent to its own mirror image.[13]

The elongated square gyrobicupola is the only polyhedron resembling the rhombicuboctahedron. The difference is that the elongated square gyrobicupola is constructed by twisting one of its cupolae. It was once considered as the 14th Archimedean solid, until it was discovered that it is not vertex-transitive, categorizing it as the Johnson solid instead.[16]

The skeleton of a rhombicuboctahedron can be described as a graph. It is polyhedral graph, meaning that it is planar and 3-vertex-connected. In other words, the edges of a graph are not crossed while being drawn, and removing any two of its vertices leaves a connected subgraph. It has 24 vertices and 48 edges. It is a quartic, meaning each of its vertices is connected by four vertices. This graph is classified as Archimedean graph, because it resembles the graph of Archimedean solid.[17]

The rhombicuboctahedron appears in the architecture, with an example of the building being the National Library located at Minsk.[18] The Wilson House is another example of the rhombicuboctahedron building, although its module was depicted as a truncated cube in which the edges are all cut off. It was built during the Second World War and Operation Breakthrough in the 1960s.[19]

The rhombicuboctahedron may also be found in toys. For example, the lines along which a Rubik's Cube can be turned are, projected onto a sphere, similar, topologically identical, to a rhombicuboctahedron's edges. Variants using the Rubik's Cube mechanism have been produced, which closely resemble the rhombicuboctahedron. During the Rubik's Cube craze of the 1980s, at least two twisty puzzles sold had the form of a rhombicuboctahedron (the mechanism was similar to that of a Rubik's Cube)[20][21] Another example may be found in dice from Corfe Castle, each of which square faces have marks of pairs of letters and pips.[22]

The rhombicuboctahedron may also appear in art. An example is the 1495 Portrait of Luca Pacioli, traditionally attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari, which includes a glass rhombicuboctahedron half-filled with water, which may have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci.[23]The first printed version of the rhombicuboctahedron was by Leonardo and appeared in Pacioli's Divina proportione (1509).

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