Modified In-School Off-School Approach Modules (MISOSA)

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Distance Education for Elementary Schools

SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

KINDS OF
PLANE FIGURES
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KINDS OF PLANE FIGURES

Objective:

Identify the different kinds of plane figures.

Review

Have you gone to the city? Or, have you read stories about the life in the city?
Read this story.
Lucia and Gary went to visit their uncle and cousins in the city. When
they arrived at the city proper, they saw signs like the following:

STOP
SCHOOL
CROSSING

ONE WAY

BUS
STOP

Can you name the shapes of the different signboards they have seen?
Do the shapes have meanings?
Is there a need to have some signboards on the street? Why?
Do we need to follow these signs?

Study and Learn

Look at the plane figures below. Count the sides each figure has.

rhombus

parallelogram

trapezoid

triangles

pentagon

nonagon

square

rectangle

quadrilateral

hexagon

heptagon

decagon

octagon

circle

The figures above are called plane figures because they have no thickness. A
plane is a mathematical term for a flat surface and takes any of the geometric plane
shapes like a circle or any in the family of simple closed shapes made up of segments
called polygons.
A polygon is a closed plane figure formed by line segments.

If polygons are closed plane figure, what could be the least number of lines that
determine a polygon?
Polygons are named according to the number of sides or angles they have. The
number of side is equal to the number of angles. Triangles have three sides.
Quadrilaterals ( square, rectangle, rhombus, parallelogram, trapezoid) have four sides.
Pentagons have five sides.

How many sides does a nonagon have?

How about octagon?
How about a circle? How many sides does it have? Is it a polygon?

Try These

Write A inside the figure with 3 sides, B inside the figure with no sides, C inside
the figure with 4 sides and D with more than 4 sides.

Wrap Up

Plane figures are figures that have no thickness. It includes the

geometric plane shapes like a circle or any in the family of simple
closed shapes made up of segments called polygons.

On Your Own

Identify the different figures and count how many.

Check your answer with the answer key. If you get.

8-10

Excellent! You may now proceed to the next lesson.

5-7

You need to review the processes you missed.

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You need to repeat the whole process. Ask your

teacher or elder to help you.