KINDS OF POLYGONS

Submitted by: Mariel l.Almendras Submitted to: Ms Filomena de Guzman

I. INTRODUCTION
The word polygon comes form Greek words poly meaning many and gon meaning angle. In this presentation, students may be able to learn more about the topic kinds of polygons .

II. OBJECTIVES

My objective is to educate other students to learn about polygon and its kinds.

Before we come up with our topic, lets talk about the meaning of polygon first.

WHAT IS A POLYGON?
Polygons are 2-dimensional shapes. They are made of straight lines, and the shape is "closed" (all the lines connect up).

Polygon (straight sides)

Not a Polygon (has a curve)

Not a Polygon (open, not closed)

REGULAR POLYGONS

THE KINDS OF POLYGON

TRIANGL Triangle is the E simplest polygon,

having three sides and three angles. The sum of the three angles of a triangle is equal to 180 degrees.

CLASSIFICATION OF TRIANGLE
EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE
- all three sides are equal - Always measure 60

ISOSCELES TRIANGLE
- a triangle with (at least) two equal sides.

SCALENE TRIANGLE

- has three unequal sides

QUADRILATERALS
Means "four sides (quad means four, lateral means side). Any four-sided shape is a Quadrilateral. But the sides have to be straight, and it has to be 2-dimensional.

Types of Quadrilaterals
There are special types of quadrilateral:

TYPES OF QUADRILATERAL

PARALLELOGRAM

A parallelogram is a quadrilateral that has two pairs of parallel sides.

RECTANGLE
means "right angle and show equal sides A rectangle is a four-sided shape where every angle is a right angle (90). Also opposite sides are parallel and of equal length.

RHOMBUS
A rhombus is a four-sided shape where all sides have equal length. Also opposite sides are parallel and opposite angles are equal. Another interesting thing is that the diagonals (dashed lines in second figure) of a rhombus bisect each other at right angles.

SQUARE

The square is probably the best known of the quadrilaterals. It is defined as having all sides equal, and its interior angles all right angles (90). From this it follows that the opposite sides are also parallel.
A square is simply a specific case of a regular polygon, in this case with 4 sides. All the facts and properties described for regular polygons apply to a square.

TRAPEZOID (OR TRAPEZIUM)

A trapezoid (called a trapezium in the UK) has a pair of opposite sides parallel. It is called an Isosceles trapezoid if the sides that aren't parallel are equal in length and both angles coming from a parallel side are equal, as shown. A trapezium (UK: trapezoid) is a quadrilateral with NO parallel sides:

KITE
A kite is a member of the quadrilateral family, is a little tricky to define in precise mathematical terms. It has two pairs of equal sides. Each pair must be adjacent sides (sharing a common vertex) and each pair must be distinct. That is, the pairs cannot have a side in common.

PENTAGON
A pentagon is a fivesided polygon. Commonly, the term "pentagon" is used to refer to the regular pentagon.

HEXAGON
A hexagon is a polygon with six edges and six vertices.

HEPTAGON
A heptagon is a seven-sided polygon. It is also sometimes called a septagon, though this usage mixes a Latin prefix sept(derived from septua-, meaning "seven") with the Greek suffix gon (from gonia, meaning "angle"), and is therefore not recommended.

OCTAGON

An octagon is a regular polygon that has eight sides.

NONAGON
The nonagon, also known as an enneagon, is a 9-sided polygon. Although the term "enneagon" is perhaps preferable (since it uses the Greek prefix and suffix instead of the mixed Roman/Greek nonagon), the term "nonagon," which is simpler to spell and pronounce, is used in this work.

DECAGON
Any polygon with ten sides and ten angles, and usually refers to a regular decagon, having all sides of equal length and each internal angle equal to 144.

CONVEX POLYGON

A convex polygon is a simple polygon whose interior is a convex set. The following properties of a simple polygon are all equivalent to convexity: - Every internal angle is less than or equal to 180 degrees. - Every line segment between two vertices remains inside or on the boundary of the polygon. A simple polygon is strictly convex if every internal angle is strictly less than 180 degrees. Equivalently, a polygon is strictly convex if every line segment between two nonadjacent vertices of the polygon is strictly interior to the polygon except at its endpoints.

NON-CONVEX POLYGON

 A simple polygon that is not convex is called concave, non-convex or reentrant. A concave polygon will always have an interior angle with a measure that is greater than 180 degrees. It is always possible to partition a concave polygon into a set of convex polygons. A polynomial-time algorithm for finding a decomposition into as few convex polygons as possible is described by Chazelle & Dobkin (1985).

ACTIVITY

Refer to the figure below. What kind of triangle is this?

ANSWER: Equilateral triangle

What is the U.K. term for TRAPEZOID?

ANSWER: Trapezium

What kind of Polygon is this?

ANSWER: Non-convex Polygon

EVALUATION:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. A polygon with three sides and three angles. A six sided polygon. Other term for non-convex polygon. A quadrilateral that has two pairs of parallel sides. The word poly comes from the word Sometimes called a septagon. How many sides does nonagon have? What is the measure of equilateral triangle? A triangle with three unequal sides. What does lateral means in the word Quadrilateral?

HOPE YOU LEARNED FROM THIS TOPIC!