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Sum of interior angles in a polygon
This resource consists of a series of student-based discovery activities that explores the sum of the interior angles of a polygon by deconstructing the polygons into triangles. The investigation continues to generalisation.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Student activities Teaching resource
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Angles and geometric reasoning
- Audience
- Teachers
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P4, P6)
- Publisher
- GeoGebra
- Copyright
- © 2022 GeoGebra. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- reasoning
- Other terms
- GeoGebra
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