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Geometry Vocabulary triangles and polygons

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polygona closed figure made of line segments that meet at their endpoints
regular polygona polygon with all congruent sides and angles
diagonala segment that joins any 2 non-consecutive veritices
perimeterthe sum of the lengths of the sides of a polygon
quadrilaterala 4-sided polygon
pentagona 5-sided polygon
hexagona 6-sided polygon
octagona 8-sided polygon
decagona 10-sided polygon
parallelograma quadrilateral with 2 pair of parallel sides
trapezoida quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides
rectanglea parallelogram with 4 congruent angles
rhombusa parallelogram with 4 congruent sides
squarea parallelogram with 4 congruent sides and 4 congruent angles
acute trianglea triangle with 3 acute angles
obtuse trianglea triangle with 1 obtuse angle
right trianglea triangle with 1 right angle
scalene trianglea triangle with no congruent sides
isosceles trianglea triangle with 2 congruent sides
equilateral trianglea triangle with 3 congruent sides
angles-sides propertythe longest side is opposite the largest angle
angles propertythe sum of the sides of a triangle is 180 degrees
sides propertythe sum of 2 sides of a triangle must be more than the 3rd side
sum of angles of a polygon180 times the number of sides minus 2
each angle of a regular polygonthe sum of the angles divided by the number of sides


Math Teacher
Dover-Sherborn Middle School
Dover, MA

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