Polygons & Perimeter

PERIMETER = distance around = add up the distance

along each side
POLYGON = “many-angles” = closed 2-dimensional
shape with line segment edges

From wikipedia tetradecagon (or tetrakaidecagon) 14

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon ): pentadecagon (or quindecagon or 15
Polygon names pentakaidecagon)
Name Edges hexadecagon (or hexakaidecagon) 16
henagon (or monogon) 1 heptadecagon (or heptakaidecagon) 17
digon 2 octadecagon (or octakaidecagon) 18
triangle (or trigon) 3 enneadecagon (or enneakaidecagon
19
quadrilateral (or tetragon) 4 or nonadecagon)
pentagon 5 icosagon 20
hexagon 6 No established English name
heptagon (avoid "septagon" = Latin
7
[sept-] + Greek) "hectogon" is the Greek name (see
100
octagon 8 hectometre),
enneagon (or nonagon) 9 "centagon" is a Latin-Greek hybrid;
decagon 10 neither is widely attested.
hendecagon (avoid "undecagon" = chiliagon 1000
11 myriagon 10,000
Latin [un-] + Greek)
dodecagon (avoid "duodecagon" = googolgon 10100
12
Latin [duo-] + Greek)
tridecagon (or triskaidecagon) 13 For large numbers, mathematicians usually
write the numeral itself, e.g. 17-gon.

Classwork

Instructions: Example:

Inside each figure write the number of

sides. Write its name underneath the Perimeter
polygon. Measure its perimeter in 4 1/16 = 4.0625 in
inches, in centimeters, then divide the 11 cm
two (cm ÷ in), and write these three
numbers to the figure’s side. 11 ÷ 4.0625 = 2.71

pentagon
GEOMETRY Mr. Yates Name __________________
Polygons & Perimeters Date _______ Pd _________