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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

To explain basic mathematical shapes/terms.

Side of shapes

Tri = 3 sides
Quad = 4 sides
Pent = 5 sides
Hex = 6 sides

    TRI 3 SIDES SHAPES
Triangle -- from Wolfram MathWorld

Equilateral triangle - All angles equal to 60 degrees, all sides are equal, al equilateral triangles have 3 lines of symmetry.

Isosceles triangle - 2 angles equal, 2 sides have equal length, all isosceles triangles have a line symmetry or one line is reflected from the other.

Scalene triangle - No angles are qual, no sides are equal length.

Right angles triangle - 1 angle must have 90 degrees.

Obtuse Triangle - 1 angle must be greater than 90 degrees which are called an obtuse angle, the other 2 angles are less than 90 degrees which are called the acute angle.

Acute triangle - All angles must have less than 90 degrees.

    QUAD 4 SIDED SHAPES:
Quadrilateral - Wikipedia
Quadrilateral shapes must have:
- 4 sides and edges
- 4 vertices or corners
- Interior angles add up to 360 degrees

Rectangle - 4 sided shape, every angle is a right angle (90 degrees), opposite sides are parallel and equal of length.

Square - 4 sides are qual, every angle is a right angle (90 degrees), opposite sides are parallel.

Rhombus - 4 sided shape, all sides have equal length, opposite sides are parallel and opposite angles are equal.
An interesting fact in diagonal or dashed lines meets in the middle at a right angle.
Rhombus is also called a rhomb or a diamond.

Parallelogram - COntains opposite sides parallel and equal in length, Opposite angles are equal (2 angles are the same, and another 2 are the same).

Trapezoid - Has opposite sides parallel, quadrilateral no parallel sides.

Kite - Has two same length sides or each pair is made of two ewaul-length sides join up.
- two angles pairs are equal.
- the diagonals, shown as dashed lines above, meet at a right angle.
- 1 diagonal bisect (cut equally in half).

Polygons
There can be a regular polygon which all angles equal and all sides equal sides, but if they don't have this they will be an irregular polygon.
Regular and Irregular Polygons ( Read ) | Geometry | CK-12 Foundation
Pentagon - A regular pentagon contains five congruent sides, five same interior angles, five same exterior angles.
Exterior angles = 360/5 sides = 72 degrees. This is found because a regular polygon, going around a pentagon completes a full circle, this means the exterior angles are found by dividing 360 degrees by the numbers of the sides.

Irregular pentagons - Convex no internal angles can be more than 180 degrees, concave one interior angle that is greater than 180 degrees.

Hex- 6 sided shapes - hexagon
Regular / irregular

When all angles are equal and all sides are equal it is regular, otherwise, it is irregular.
How to Find the Perimeter of a Hexagon - Video & Lesson Transcript |  Study.com
A concave/convex

A convex hexagon no angles pointed inwards, no internal angles can be more than 180 degrees.














6 comments:

  1. This blog contains good information about the shapes. What you could have done was add information about what equilateral and quadrilateral are.

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  2. this is my favourite one so far it had a lot of good information and it was good job.

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  3. Good information, could use definitions for convent and congruent, the spelling could be better.

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  4. Good work on the Blog Raeven there's a lot of good information and its really easy to understand

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  5. This information was really useful and I learnt a lot from reading your blog. keep it up!!

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  6. Hi Reaven! You fully explain to us all the shapes and I also like that you highlighted each name of the shapes. Nice informations. Great Job!

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