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These guys are 2D shapes and 2D shapes are everywhere.
Shapes have sides and corners and are completely flat, like a drawing on a piece of paper.
Circles don’t have corners and have got just one long round side. Wheels, they're circles and are one of the most important inventions ever. And doesn't he know it.
Triangles. Like a slice of pizza, and sandwiches. They’ve got 3 sides.
Square, 4 equal sides. You see squares in the faces of a dice and cheese crackers.
Rectangles, similar to squares, but have 2 long sides and 2 shorter sides. Books. TVs. Postcards.
Pentagons, 5 sides. You can see these in the black shapes in the patterns on a football.
Hexagons, 6 sides. Er…honeycomb, and the ends of pencils.
Octagons, 8 sides! Stop signs on the side of the road; they're octagons.
Oh…oh…bit rude.
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