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What is a Regular Polygon?

OK, you know that a polygon is a two-dimensional shape whose edges are all line segments.

So what makes a polygon a regular polygon?

Dietary fiber?

Hahaha...biology is down the hall.

A regular polygon is a polygon with all edges the same length and all angles between edges the same size.

Check these out; click on the images, left to right, top to bottom. Go through the images twice, because the second time through, you will have new thoughts about the messages.

 

 

 

 

scalene triangle isosceles triangle equilateral triangle equiangular triangle
red quadrilateral trapezoid (four-sided polygon with one pair od parallel sides) parallelogram (four-sided figure with two pair of parallel sides rhombus (parallelogram with equal sides)
quadrilateral parallelogram (four-sided figure with two pair of parallel sides rectangle square
octagon (eight-sided polygon) octagon (eight-sided polygon) octagon (eight-sided polygon)

hexadecagon (16-sided polygon)

 

Look at the pictures and tags as much as you want.

When you know what a regular polygon is, answer the questions below and click Submit:

isosceles triangle
rhombus, kite-oriented
square
outline of a pentagon
Regular Polygon?

Regular Polygon?

If the object is not a regular polygon, give all the reasons why it is not.

 

 

Name:

 

 

When you are done with this activity, use the link below to return to the introduction page for this unit:
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