Pentagon
(Complete Item Description)
- Abstract:
A web page and interactive applet illustrating the properties of a pentagon (5 sided polygon). The applet shows a pentagon where the user can drag any vertex to reshape it. User can see that the interior and exterior angles are constant in a regular pentagon, but vary in an irregular version. Controls allow the display or hiding of the diagonals, and triangles within the pentagon. The web page lists the properties of a pentagon including interior angles, exterior angles, sum of exterior angles, area, number of diagonals and number of internal triangles. Links to pages with generalized properties of all polygons. Applet can be enlarged to full screen size for use with a classroom projector. This resource is a component of the Math Open Reference Interactive Geometry textbook project at http://www.mathopenref.com.
- Subject:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Grade Level:
- Secondary
- Collection:
- Math Open Reference
