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In this activity Norbert and Zot are mathematics professors. They challenge you to exercise your mind by trying to create theorems about parallelograms. A theorem is a statement about mathematics that can be proved (or shown) to be true. Norbert and Zot have tools to help you explore parallelograms. The tools allow you to draw parallelograms of various shapes and sizes and meaasure the areas of the parallelograms. From your explorations, you should be able to come up with some statements about parallelograms that seem like they should be true.

After your explorations of parallelograms, you should be able to use your theorems and what you learned to draw a very symmetrical kite using just parallelograms. Explore, create, and have fun learning. After you are familiar with the Squeak theorems project, try these challenges. We would like to see the theorems you prove and the challenges you meet. Go to the NASA CONNECT web site to submit your results and we will post them.

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