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Polygons

This document contains instructions for a multi-part math assignment involving geometry concepts in GeoGebra. Students are asked to construct shapes like circles, polygons and figures involving tangents, and then measure and calculate angles within and related to these shapes. They are to record their work and findings in a table or by answering questions. The assignment will help students explore properties of angles, discover relationships between the number of sides of a polygon and the sum of its interior angles, and solve problems involving tangents and related angles.

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Polygons

This document contains instructions for a multi-part math assignment involving geometry concepts in GeoGebra. Students are asked to construct shapes like circles, polygons and figures involving tangents, and then measure and calculate angles within and related to these shapes. They are to record their work and findings in a table or by answering questions. The assignment will help students explore properties of angles, discover relationships between the number of sides of a polygon and the sum of its interior angles, and solve problems involving tangents and related angles.

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1. Get a head start on your Christmas shopping!

2. Do your blog post for December today.


3. In-class test/assignment tomorrow.
4. You can work in partners on this assignment if you want. Make sure to indicate that you worked
in partners if you did.
5. This is the end of class time to work on these assignments. I will mark them at the end of next
week. If you wish to finish them, you may use Lab 46 (GeoGebra is on those computers) any
time next week.

PART A

1. Create two circles.

2. Create points so that there are 4 points on each circle.

3. Connect the points in a clockwise direction to form a quadrilateral in the circle..

4. Measure all inscribed angles.


5. What do these angles add up to?

6. Paste your GeoGebra Screen shot below.

7. Now, measure pairs of angles (I won’t tell you which ones to pair with each other.) If you look at
the sums of pairs of angles, you should discover something interesting. Try to figure out what it
is and write it below.

PART B

1. Create 7 polygons – with 3 sides, 4 sides, 5 sides, 6 sides, etc.

2. Measure all the angles inside the polygons.


3. Add up the angles in each polygon and record the sums in this table:

Number of sides Sum of interior angles

3 (triangle) °
4 (square) °

5 (pentagon) °

6 () °

7 () °

8 () °

9 () °

4. Can you figure out a rule relating the number of sides to the sum of the angles?

PART C

1. Use what you know about GeoGebra and tangents to draw and solve these questions. Paste
your GeoGebra screens into this document.
2. Answer all of these questions, but only draw 1 in GeoGebra. Paste your screen shot after the
Palm tree below!!!!!

a) _____°
b) _____°
c) _____°
d) _____°

Does it
matter if
you don’t
draw them
to scale?

_________
1. Drawing #1
PART D

1. Use what you know about GeoGebra and tangents to draw and solve these questions. Paste
your GeoGebra screens into this document.
2. Answer all of these questions, but only draw 1 in GeoGebra. Paste your screen shot after the
Palm tree below!!!!!

a) x = ___°
y = ___°

b) x = ___°
y = ___°

c) x = ___°
y = ___°

d) x = ___
y = ___

2. Drawing #1
PART E

1. Draw this in GeoGebra and solve the problem.

DEF = ___°

3. Drawing of above (you can colour it if you like).

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