Class

VI

Chapter

Triangle

Key Concepts

Triangle as a three sided closed figure.

Components of a triangle.
Classification of triangle on the basis of
(a) sides and (b) angles
Interior and exterior of a triangle
Angular region of a triangle
Angle sum property of interior angles of a triangle
Side inequality property of a triangle.
Exterior angles
Exterior angle property of a triangle

Vocabulary used
Term/Definition/
Example/NonExample

Open and closed curves

Triangle
Scalene, isosceles, equilateral
Acute angled, right angled, obtuse angled
Interior
Exterior
Angular region
Inequality

Flow of Chapter

Introduction of open and closed curve by showing different curves

Special type of closed curves ( rectilinear and non rectilinear, but

the name is not to be mentioned in class 6) by showing figures

Concluding by saying, we will focus only on the figures made of line

segments.
Classifying the following as three sided, four sided and five sided
figures and introducing 3 sided closed figure as triangles

Particular names of all the figures given above as triangle, square,

pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon etc


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Classification of triangle on the basis of sides

scalene triangle
isosceles triangle
equilateral triangle
Classification of triangle on the basis of angles
Acute angled triangle
Right angled triangle
Obtuse angled triangle

Worksheet 1

Worksheet 2
Classify the following on the basis of sides (scalene, isosceles and
equilateral)

 Interior, exterior and angular region of a triangle

Worksheet 3

(fig 1 )
Fill in the blanks:
Fig1:
points in the interior of triangle: ______________________________
points in the exterior of triangle: ______________________________
Points on angular region: ___________________________________

( fig 2)
Mark the following in above triangle:
1. Vertices A,B and C
2. Points J, P on the angular region
3. Points M, K in the interior of triangle
4. Points L, S and E in the exterior of triangle.

 Angle sum property of interior angles of a triangle

(by paper cutting and pasting activity)

Conclusion

 Problems based on ASP

Worksheet 4

Side inequality property of triangle

 Problems based on side inequality of triangle

Worksheet 5
Find if the we can construct a triangle with given sides
1. 5cm, 7cm, 4cm

2. 6cm, 6cm, 13cm

3. 12cm, 14cm, 15cm

Exterior angle property of a triangle

(by paper cutting and pasting activity)

 Problems based on exterior angle property

Worksheet 6

(more questions can be added)

Common errors Angle sum property sometimes is mixed with side inequality of triangles.
committed

Enrichment
/extended
activities

Identify the triangles in the real world around (like: pyramid, in bridges
etc), classify them in different types and verify angle sum property and
side inequality property for them.