The purpose of this lesson is to name and describe polygons.
Included is a YouTube video to support Grade 3 Blended Learning Math - Unit 6.1: Geometry - Naming Polygons.
The purpose of this lesson is to investigate polygons.
Included is a YouTube video to support Grade 6 Blended Learning Math - Unit 6.4: Geometry - Investigating Polygons.
A web page and interactive applet illustrating the properties of a octagon (8 sided polygon). The applet shows an octagon where the user can drag any vertex to reshape it. User can see that the interior and exterior angles are constant in a regular octagon, but vary in an irregular version. Controls allow the display or hiding of the diagonals, and triangles within the octagon. The web page lists the properties of an octagon including interior angles, exterior angles, sum of exterior angles, area, number of diagonals and number of internal triangles. Links to pages with generalized properties of all polygons. Applet can be enlarged to full screen size for use with a classroom projector. This resource is a component of the Math Open Reference Interactive Geometry textbook project at http://www.mathopenref.com.
These logic number puzzles help students develop strong number sense as they work, clue by clue, to identify the digits of the missing number. The mixed-skills clues incorporate even-odd, less than-greater than, operations (sum, difference), multiples of 5 and 10, geometric terms (octagaon, pentagon, hexagon, quadrilateral, trapezoid, parallelogram), money (quarters, nickels) and measurement (cup, pint, quart, gallon). Students must squeeze every bit of knowledge from each clue to eliminate possible digits until they finally identify the missing digits.