MathsYears 5–6Geometry - Properties of Shapes

Distinguish regular and irregular polygons

Use the properties of rectangles to deduce related facts and find missing lengths and angles; distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about equal sides and angles

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine a square piece of paper 🟩. All its sides are the same length, and all its corners are the same size. That's a regular polygon!

  2. 2

    Which shape has all sides the same length and all corners the same size?

  3. 3

    Look at these two shapes. The left one is regular — all sides and angles match. The right one is irregular — they don't.

  4. 4

    Let's check this shape together — is it regular or irregular?

  5. 5

    Tap on the regular shapes. They have all sides equal and all angles equal.

  6. 6

    Which one is a regular shape?

  7. 7

    True or false: All triangles are regular polygons.

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