shapes
Geometry jokes
Problem Solving
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Lisa's favorite shirt has buttons in the shape of a pentagon. How many right angles does a pentagon have?
zero, It has 5 angles greater than a right angle.
100
What shape never wins any games?
A circle because it is pointless
100
Pamela likes to draw quadrilaterals with 4 sides of equal length and 4 right angles. What shape is her quadrilateral?
square
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A point at either end of a line segment
endpoints
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Judy is organizing her shapes. What plane shape would she put in the box labeled, Polygons with 2 parallel sides and right angles?
squares and rectangles
200
What shape should you use to try and trap someone?
A trapezoid
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Jane is another student who likes to draw. She loves to draw a shape with three sides with one a right angle. Which shape did she draw?
200
A straight path extending in both directions with no endpoints.
300
Frank is obsessed with quadrilaterals. What shapes are quadrilaterals?
Any shape that has 4 sides, 4 angles, and 4 vertices.
300
What do you say when you see an empty bird cage?
A polygon
300
Vivian drew lines to divide a trapezoid into 3 equal shapes. What 3 equal shapes did she create within the trapezoid?
300
Sherry is driving with her mom. The car comes to a stop sign. The car came to the type of lines that cross called...
intersecting
400
Isabella says she has letters in her name that are parallel lines. What letters in her name is she referring to?
ll
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What did the students say when the witch doctor removed the curse?
Hexagon
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James is bored and looks out his rectangular window. What type of angles does his window have?
right angles
400
To figure out the shape of an object, Elsie counted the sides and angles. She noticed the shape had 8 equal sides and 8 equal angles. The shape is...
An octagon
500
Vicky and Mary were painting a rainbow. Vicky told Mary that rainbows were an open shape. Is Vicky correct?
Yes An open shape has line segments that are not connected to any of its endpoints.
500
Why was the teacher late for work?
She took the rhombus
500
Why is the obtuse triangle always upset?
Because he is never right
500
Lily knows that one side of a her shape is 7 inches long. She added the sides to find the perimeter and correctly calculated that the perimeter is 35 inches. This shape is called...
A pentagon