{"id":73274,"date":"2020-05-27T15:19:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T19:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=73274"},"modified":"2020-06-08T12:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:02:41","slug":"playing-with-polygons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/math\/math-grades-1-3\/investigations\/playing-with-polygons\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with Polygons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Investigations<\/h5>\n<h3>Materials:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>paper<\/li>\n<li>pencil<\/li>\n<li>ruler or straight edge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Polygons are closed shapes with only straight sides. Polygons have different names depending on the number of sides they have.<\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-73275\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/Hexagons.png\" alt=\"outlines of triangles, quadrilaterals, hexagons, heptagons and octagons\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/Hexagons.png 1032w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/Hexagons-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/Hexagons-768x454.png 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/Hexagons-1024x605.png 1024w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/Hexagons-165x98.png 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/Hexagons-945x559.png 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/Hexagons-750x443.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Ask your child to explain what they know about each kind of polygon. Encourage your child to talk about the number of sides each polygon has.<\/li>\n<li>Have your child use a pencil and ruler to draw shapes with three to eight sides.<\/li>\n<li>Ask your child to name the type of polygon it is.<\/li>\n<li>Draw some shapes with three to eight sides, and ask your child to identify them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Possible Extensions:<\/h3>\n<h4>Polygon Riddles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Which 2 polygons would have 8 sides altogether? Can you find another answer?<\/li>\n<li>Which 3 polygons would have 14 sides altogether? Can you find another answer?<\/li>\n<li>Polygon Picture &#8211; create a picture that has at least 3 different polygons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/oame.on.ca\/eduproject\/ontariomathedresources\/files\/Geometry%20and%20Spatial%20Sense%201-3%20Revised.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mathies.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polygons are closed shapes with only straight sides. Polygons have different names depending on the number of sides they have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72786,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73274","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73274\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}