12/1/2023 0 Comments Polygon shapes names*At some point in the future I would like to play around with Google’s search, and figure out (to the best of my ability) how it deals with and/or/not/parentheses, and write about it on this blog. From what I can tell it was John Conway and Antreas Hatzipolakis who completed the namings up to the millions. The video explains the properties of each shape and how to distinguish them from one another. Here is what I found.Īpparently there are two naming conventions (one with kai’s and one without). For example, a polygon with 47 sides would be called tetracontakaiheptagon or a tetracontaheptagon (of course, in practice mathematicians usually opt for the more compact and boring 47-gon). Learn about recognizing and naming different shapes, such as circles, ovals, triangles, and various types of quadrilaterals like rectangles, squares, rhombuses, and trapezoids. A polygon is a plane figure described by a closed, polygonal line. One thing I found interesting while searching for information about polygons was their naming conventions. Educational video for children to learn what polygons are and how we classify them. Polygon Chart The following chart shows the naming convention of polygons on the basis of the number of sides that they have. Here is the list as a table of all the different regular geometric shapes of the 2D plane (table of n-sided polygon names). For example, a 3-sided polygon is a triangle, a 4-sided polygon is a quadrilateral, a 5-sided polygon is a pentagon, a 6-sided polygon is a hexagon, and so on. Here is a graph to illustrate the relative popularity of the n-gons. More generally, polygons are written with a prefix indicating their number of sides and the suffix -gon. Rectangle/quadrilateral/tetragon/quadrangle (4 sides)-1,748,450 hits.Triangle/trigon (3 sides)-2,633,500 Google hits.So here they are (drum roll, please), the top eight most popular polygons with 10 or fewer sides. Neither of these is a perfect solution, but hey, this is just a blog and not a submission to. * To solve the second problem I added the number of search results for each of the terms. To solve the first problem I entered the term geometry before the name of the polygon (for example I searched for geometry pentagon). Second, certain polygons have more than one name (rectangle, quadrilateral, tetragon, quadrangle). The first is that some of these words have nongeometric meanings like triangle and pentagon. The more hits, the more popular the term. So, I decided to google the terms and see which polygons received the most hits. Both of my kids (one of whom is 2 years old) know what an octagon is, but I doubt my college students know the heptagon. Special types of quadrilaterals Some quadrilaterals go by special names like rectangle, rhombus, and square. Study some examples Here are some examples of quadrilaterals: Try it yourself Which of the following shapes are quadrilaterals Choose all answers that apply: A B C D E Show solution. (I feel bad for Heptagon, who apparently wasn’t invited to the party.) A quadrilateral is a polygon with four sides. If you’re teaching shapes to students, then we have lots of free resources for you. I first posted this video back in September. Activities And Resources To Teach Shapes.
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