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Seeing Parallelograms
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level 
You may want to play Seeing Squares before having a go at this game.
Please be aware that there are special parallelograms which you will know by other names...
Here is a collection of parallelograms, one of which is also a rectangle.
Therefore a rectangle is a parallelogram.
Here is a collection of parallelograms, one of which is also a rhombus.
Therefore a rhombus is a parallelogram.
Here is a collection of rectangles, one of which is also a square.
Therefore a square is a rectangle and a parallelogram.
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