The easiest fastest way to learn about quadrilaterals is to build one yourself. They have four sides. Other names for quadrilateral include quadrangle in analogy to triangle tetragon in analogy to pentagon 5-sided polygon and hexagon 6-sided polygon and 4-gon in analogy to k -gons for arbitrary values of k.
The word quad states as four.
We can find the shape of quadrilaterals in various things around us like in a chess board a deck of cards a kite a tub of popcorn a sign board and in an arrow. When we connect the midpoints the point exactly half-way along a line of each side of the quadrilateral one after the other we create a new shape that has opposite sides parallel even though the containing quadrilateral might not. Learn vocabulary terms and more with flashcards games and other study tools. There are different types of quadrilaterals.