By:
Brittany Copeland
Chad Gange
Demond Lightfoot
Amber Reeves
Martez Caldwell
Table of Contents
The Authors
Brittany Copeland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Demond Lightfoot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chad Gange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Amber Reeves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Martez Caldwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Polygons and the Real World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Polygons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Triangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Quadrilaterals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Parallelograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Rectangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Rhombuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Trapezoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Citations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Brittany Copeland
Age: 14
Favorite Colors: Dark blue, silver, and black
Favorite Animals: Wolves!
Favorite Subject: English/Reading (Followed closely by Math!)
Favorite Teacher: Mrs. Graham
Hobbies: Reading, writing, drawing, playing B flat clarinet, playing
computer games, ect.
Favorite Book: Brisingr, by Christopher Poalini
Favorite movie: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Favorite TV show: Sanctuary (Friday on the Sy-Fy channel)
Favorite Song: Uh….Next question, please?!
Demond Lightfoot
Favorite color: My favorite colors are blue and green.
Favorite animal: My favorite animal is a tiger
Favorite subject: My favorite subject is math.
Favorite teacher: My favorite teacher in Ms.Warren.
Favorite hobbies: My favorite hobbies are basketball and video games.
Favorite book: I do not have a favorite book.
Favorite movie: My favorite movie is The Fast and the Furious.
Favorite TV show: My favorite TV show is spongebob.
Chad Gagne
I am Chad and I am in the eighth grade and I am thirteen. My favorite subject is Social
Studies. But, I am beginning to appreciate math a little more than I did. In January of
2008 I started playing the bass and sense then music has become my passion. I own four
basses and two guitars. I also play Tuba in our school band. We recently had our Christmas
concert and it was a blast. Me and a flute player named Sarah had the opportunity to play a
song with the advanced band because we had worked hard for it and earned it. When I grow
up I hope to do any profession that has to do with music, whether it is building guitars or
playing music I hope to do something with music. This is all about me for the moment.
Amber Reeves:
I’m 13 years old. My favorite subject is Math and I am in the eighth grade. I was
born on August 14 of 1996 in Jackson, Georgia. I am very close to my family and
all my friends. Soon I plan on learning how to play guitar cause I have always loved
that instrument. I used to play violin and piano, but I stop cause I lost interest in
both instruments. In the future I would like to be a veterinarian because I absolutely
love animals.
Polygons in the Real World
Polygons are everywhere. Every shape with three or more outside lines make these
up. So, naturally, this includes buildings, traffic signs, automobiles, chairs, desks, ect.
For example, a piece of regular lined paper for school is a rectangle, a quadrilateral,
and overall, a polygon. A stop sign is an octagon, a shape with eight sides and
angles; hence it is also a polygon. There are many polygons in the world, and even if
we don’t realize it, we see and use them every day.
Triangles
•A triangle is a polygon which has three sides. Its three interior angles add up to 180°.
Triangles are usually described by reference to their sides or angles. (or both)
•There are three types of triangles. (Scalene, Equilateral, Isosceles triangles.)
•A scalene triangle has all its sides of different lengths. All of its angles must also be of
different sides.
•An equilateral triangle has three congruent sides and three congruent angles.
•An isosceles triangle has at least two congruent angles and two congruent sides.
Quadrilaterals
A quadrilateral is a shape with four sides and angles. Different types of quadrilaterals are
called different things. For example, there are squares, which have four right angles and four
equal sides. In the quadrilateral family are the following:
parallelograms,
rectangles,
rhombuses,
squares,
and trapezoids.
Continue to the following slides for more.
Rhombus
A rhombus is often seen as a diamond, often with two acute angles and two obtuse
angles. Like all four sided quadrilaterals, the angles add up to 360 degrees.
Citations
•www.mathisfun.com.quadrilaterals.html
•Holt Pre-Algebra textbook
•Notes from Ms. Warren’s class
•There are several books that we used, but we were not able to re-find them after
Friday, December 11th 2009 when we came to the library the first time.