What Are Shapes?
Shapes are the outlines of objects.
Shapes are all around us.
🤔 Do you know what shape this paper is?
👆 It's a rectangle!
Let's learn the names of shapes.
A triangle has 3 sides.
Can you think of where you might find triangles in real life? Some examples are a pizza slice, a warning sign, and a sandwich.
A square has 4 sides. The sides are equal.
Can you think of squares in real life?
Tiles on the floor, a square window, and squares on a chess board are all squares.
In fact, the whole chessboard is a square!
What happens when you stretch out a square? You get a rectangle.
A rectangle has 4 sides. Two sides are longer, and the two other sides are shorter.
🤔 What are some rectangles around you?
A phone, letter, and an apartment block are rectangles.
The stamp on the letter is a rectangle too!
😃Did you know that all squares are actually rectangles too?
What about shapes with more than four sides?
Shapes with More Than 4 Sides
A pentagon has 5 sides.
A hexagon has 6 sides.
A heptagon has 7 sides.
An octagon has 8 sides.
All of the shapes above are called polygons,
A polygon is any 2D shape (which means "flat") with many sides.
But there is one shape which is not a polygon. Can you think of one more shape?
That's right! It is a circle.
A circle has no sides. You will learn more about this later.
Here is a circle:
Well done! Now you know lots of shapes!
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