When looking at a house, garage, store building or factory, or any of the other thousands of structures we live, work, and play in, look for the simple shapes. Look at the front of a house, and you ...
When most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier-sounding rhombus or trapezoid. But to mathematicians, shapes encompass a vast universe of surprising ...
KAYLA: And it’s a closed shape.It wouldn’t be much good as a pond otherwise. ADA: These properties tell us it’s a polygon.A polygon is a closed shape made of straight lines.Your pond is a type of ...