Showing posts with label gons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gons. Show all posts

Monday, April 23, 2012

Shape names

In the past couple of days we've been talking a lot about shapes. So today I thought it would be good to talk about shapes and where their names come from.
3 sides - Triangle - Tri = 3
4 sides - qudrilateral - quad - 4 sides
5 sindes - Pentagon - penta = 5
6 sides - Hexagon - Hex = 6
7 sides - Heptagon
8 sides - Octagon
9 sides - nonagon
10 sides - decagon
Many times after 10 sides the shape will be refered to as an "n" gon where n is the number of sides.
Knowing the names of these shapes is important when identifying other shapes such as cubes, pentagonal prisms or a octagonal pyramid.

Just for reference here is a picture on the shape names.