Polygons

Martin McBride

2020-08-12

A polygon is a shape made up of straight sides. Polygons include triangles, rectangles, parallelograms, pentagons, hexagons and so on. This sections explores the different types and properties of polygons:

Regular polygons (shapes where each side is the same length and each angle is the same).
Different types of triangle.
Different types of quadrilateral.
Interior and exterior angles.
Symmetry.
Tesselation (tiling shapes).

See also

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