Y8 Polygons

Activities and teaching ideas to encourage variety, curiosity and engagement in our lessons.

MEP resourses with all worksheets.

Activity 15.4 properties of polygons contains a nice table that can be stuck in books.

Booklet showing how to fold A4 paper to make nearly all the regular polygons.

Teaching ideas - ask pupils to create shapes without instruction.

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Excel spreadsheet showing different regular polygons.

Link to previous topic of constructions and it shows polygons with circumscribed circles.

Nice question sheet after where pupils need to find sum of interior but also areas and perimeter which would involve using trig (good extension)

Find all the missing angles in the diagram using angles in different polyons.