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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we learn how to describe the properties of scalene, isosceles and equilateral triangles. We will also learn how to identify and classify triangles inscribed in circles.

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6 Questions

Q1.
Decide if the statements are always true, sometimes or never true: All quadrilaterals have 4 lines of symmetry.
Always true
Never true
Correct answer: Sometimes true
Q2.
Decide if the statements are always true, sometimes or never true: The number of lines of symmetry a polygon has is more than its number of sides.
Always true
Correct answer: Never true
Sometimes true
Q3.
Decide if the statements are always true, sometimes or never true: A regular polygon has as many lines of symmetry as it does sides.
Correct answer: Always true
Never true
Sometimes true
Q4.
Decide if the statements are always true, sometimes or never true: The number of lines of symmetry a polygon has is the same as its order of rotational symmetry.
Always true
Never true
Correct answer: Sometimes true
Q5.
How many lines of symmetry does a parallelogram have?
Correct answer: 0
1
2
4
Q6.
How many lines of symmetry does the shape below have?
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1
2
Correct answer: 3

6 Questions

Q1.
What is a triangle with at least two equal sides called?
Equilateral triangle
Correct answer: Isosceles triangle
Obtuse triangle
Scalene triangle
Q2.
What is a triangle with three equal sides called?
Correct answer: Equilateral triangle
Isosceles triangle
None
Scalene triangle
Q3.
Would it be possible to draw a scalene triangle with more than one obtuse angle?
Correct answer: No, this will be impossible
Yes, this will be possible
Q4.
The sum of all the angles of a triangle is:
100 degrees
Correct answer: 180 degrees
360 degrees
90 degrees
Q5.
Zaki and Connor are looking at the diagram on the right. Who do you agree with? Why?
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Connor
Neither of them
Correct answer: Zaki
Q6.
I am thinking of a triangle which have the following properties: no lines of symmetry and has one right angle. Which triangle am I thinking of?
Equilateral triangle
Isosceles triangle
Correct answer: Scalene triangle

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UnitMaths / Classifying 2-D shapes