Year 5, Unit 9, Week 3, Lesson 2

Extension
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Dazzling diagonals
Investigate diagonal lines drawn in polygons You will need:
• ruler
A B • red pencil

1 a For each hexagon, using a red pencil, draw straight lines to join the
vertex marked by a black dot to the three non-adjacent vertices.
b Look at each triangle in turn and mark any equal sides.
Shade triangles with pairs of equal sides in red.

2 a On the circle, use straight lines 12

to join the points 1 to 2, 2 to 3, 11 1
3 to 4 and so on.
b Count the number of sides 10 2
of the shape.
sides.
9 3
c Draw all the diagonals,
joining non-adjacent
vertices with straight lines.
8 4
d Count the number of
diagonals at each vertex.
7 5
diagonals 6

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