LESSON 4 Building with Triangles

You are going to build shapes by putting together triangles. First you will build shapes with two triangles. Then you will build shapes with three triangles.

Questions 1–3 refer to the triangles shown above.

  1. How many sides (edges) does each triangle have?
  2. A point where two sides come together is called a vertex. Vertices are at the corners. How many vertices does each triangle have?
  3. How many right angles (square angles) does each triangle have? (Hint: compare each angle in a triangle with a corner of a square tangram piece or a piece of paper.)
  4. A shape has line symmetry if you can fold it in half so that the halves match exactly. The fold line is called a line of symmetry. How many lines of symmetry does the following shape have? Sketch the shape and show the lines of symmetry.