Group 2

“Sum of the Interior Angles of a Convex Polygon”

Materials needed:
pencil, paper, protractor, marker
Procedures:
1.) Draw a triangle. Using a protractor, determine the measure of its
interior angles and determine the sum of the interior angles.
2.) Draw a four-sided polygon. Then fix a vertex and draw diagonals from
this vertex. Then answer the following:
a. How many diagonals are drawn from the fixed vertex? _____
b. How many triangles are formed by this/these diagonals? _____
c. Without actually measuring, can you determine the sum of the interior
angles of a four-sided polygon?
3.) Draw a five-sided polygon. The Then fix a vertex and draw diagonals
from this vertex. Then answer the following:
a. How many diagonals are drawn from the fixed vertex? _____
b. How many triangles are formed by this/these diagonals? _____
c. Without actually measuring, can you determine the sum of the interior
angles of a five-sided polygon?
4.) Continue this with a six-sided and seven-sided polygon.
5.) Search for a pattern and complete the table below:

No. of Sides No. of diagonals No. of triangles Sum of the

from a fixed formed by the interior angles
vertex diagonals drawn
from a fixed
vertex
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10