Let’s Get Loopy About Geometry
Worksheet
Questions can be done as a class, in groups or individually
1) How many sides does a square have? ____________
2) How many sides does a rhombus have? ____________
3) How many sides does a pentagon have? ____________
4) What did the pirate say when his parrot died?
“Polly gone.”
5) Do you think polygons are 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional, or 3-dimensional?
____________ Why? ____________________________________
6) What is a regular polygon? ____________________________________
Draw an example ____________
7) What is an irregular polygon? ____________________________________
Draw an example ____________
8) Is every square also a rhombus? _____ Is every rhombus also a square? _____
How are they different or alike? _____________________________________
Is a square also a rectangle? ______ Is a rectangle also a parallelogram? ______
How are squares, rectangles, and parallelograms different or alike?
_____________________________________
9) When your group made an equilateral triangle and a square with the loop, which
had longer sides? ____________ Can you explain why?
10) Draw a pentagon ->
Is the pentagon you drew a regular or irregular polygon? ____________
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Let’s Get Loopy About Geometry Worksheet
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11) Draw an octagon ->
Is the octagon you drew a regular or irregular polygon? ____________
EXTRA CREDIT
12) Do you think a circle is a polygon? ____________
Why or why not? ____________________________________
13) Is a tetrahedron 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional? ____________
14) What are the names of some objects that are 3-dimensional? ____________
15) Below are some shapes. Try to trace over the shapes without ever lifting your
pencil from the paper.
Here are three squares in a row. One of them has a diagonal line dividing it in half,
the third has two diagonal lines. Which of the three shapes can be drawn without
ever tracing over the same lines twice? Why or why not? If you do have to trace
over lines, what is the fewest number of lines you must trace over for each
square? Discuss your answers as a class.
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Let’s Get Loopy About Geometry Worksheet
 2013 Karl Schaffer and Erik Stern