Making Shapes

Today's math exploration lead us to an exploration of shapes. We read the book The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns. In this book a dissatisfied triangle visits a shapeshifter to add another angle to his shape. He becomes a quadrilateral, then a pentagon, then a hexagon and so on and so on. After reading we made our own shapes with Popsicle sticks. It was tricky to figure out how to arrange the popsicle sticks to create different shapes. We really had to think about the number of sides and angles.