Shapes Have Names

A Math song (3:20) that adheres to Common Core Standards to help students lear the number of sides and angles in different shapes.


Shapes Have Names

Shapes have names and we know them all,
Shapes have names, lets give ‘em a call.

Woo woo!

Hey Triangle

Hey

What does tri mean?

Three

How many sides and angles do you have ?

Just three.

Oh, that’s easy!

Shapes have names and we know them all,
Shapes have names, lets give ‘em a call.

Woo woo!

Hey Quadrilaterals!

Hey!

There’s a bunch of you.

Yeah, but we all have four sides and angles.

Ok, paralelagrams first. Introduce yourselves.

Ok. Hi I’m a square. I’ve got four sides, and all my sides are congruent, which means they’re all the same and all my angles too. 90 degrees. That’s me. I’m a square

Hey I’m a rectangle, I have four sides too, but two sides are longer than the other two. But my angles are congruent, yeah, they’re all the same my angles are 90 like my buddy the square!

Woo woo

I’m a Rhombus. I’m a parallelogram, too. My sides are all congruent, but my angles can be skewed. I can look just like a square, I can look like a diamond. Maybe one day I’ll shine bright like a diamond.
Shapes have names and we know them all,
Shapes have names, lets give ‘em a call.

Woo woo!

Hey Hexagon. How many sides do you have?

I have six!

I know, seeya later.

Hello Octagon, what about you?

I have eight sides, and and an octopus has eight legs too.

Well, ok.

Shapes have names and we know them all,
Shapes have names, lets give ‘em a call.

Woo woo!

Hey Circle, you’re special, you don’t have any sides.

You’re correct, I just have one perfect curving line. Just one perfect curving line.

Shapes have names and we know them all,
Shapes have names, lets give ‘em a call.

Woo woo!