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Current NZC (2007)
GM5-5
New NZC (2026)
NZC26-P4-GEO-SHP-P-Y10-01NZC26-P3-GEO-SPR-K-Y7-01NZC26-P3-GEO-SPR-K-Y7-02NZC26-P3-GEO-SPR-K-Y7-04NZC26-P3-GEO-SPR-P-Y8-02NZC26-P3-GEO-SPR-P-Y8-03
Resources
- CorbettMaths on angle properties of polygonsQuestions PDF · Answers
- Beta: Triangles: Exercise 18.06, pg 349
- Beta: Exterior Polygons: Exercise 19.02, pg 375
- Beta: Interior Polygons: Exercise 19.03, pgs 376 & 377
- Beta: Regular polygons: Exercise 377 & 379
Terminology
- regular polygon
- irregular polygon
- internal angle
Task goals
- State whether a described or pictured polygon is regular or irregular, and complete the statement that a regular polygon has all sides the same length and all interior angles equal.
- Find the sum of the interior angles of a polygon using 180(n - 2), for shapes from a triangle up to an octagon.
- Find the size of one interior angle of a regular polygon (pentagon, hexagon, octagon, nonagon, or decagon) by dividing the interior-angle sum by the number of sides.
- Find a missing interior angle of an irregular polygon given all its other interior angles.
- Find the number of sides of a polygon given its interior-angle sum, or given the size of one interior angle of a regular polygon.
- Justify why a polygon with equal sides and equal angles must be regular, and evaluate a claim that equal angles alone are enough to make a polygon regular.
- Find the missing angles of an irregular polygon whose interior angles are given as a ratio.
- Write a general formula relating a regular polygon's interior-angle sum to one interior angle and the number of sides, and use it to solve multi-step problems relating one regular polygon to another.
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Regular/irregular polygon
Know
The sum of the exterior angles of a polygon is 360°.
Statement▸
Year 7 · Geometry · Spatial reasoning
NZC26-P3-GEO-SPR-K-Y7-01
Know
In a regular polygon, all exterior angles are the same; an exterior angle can be found by subtracting the interior angle from 180° or by dividing 360° by the number of sides.
Statement▸
Year 7 · Geometry · Spatial reasoning
NZC26-P3-GEO-SPR-K-Y7-02
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