Acute Little Triangle

1. Amanda Micallef Megan Kurn Acute Little Triangle Once apon a time there was acute little triangle. She was a very special triangle because she was not only acute, she was also equal, perfectly equal. An equilateral with all of her angles measuring 60 degrees. She was very happy, however, in the far away land of the angles there was a very sad scalene. He wished he was as equal as the acute little triangle. The very sad scalene was not only best friends with the acute little triangle , but also her one and only brother. Nobody could make the very sad scalene smile, nobody accept his sister. The acute little triangle would tell her brother many funny stories of her husband and children. She would visit him when ever she could but she knew what he wanted more than that. She knew he wanted the her magical protractor which could measure and fix his odd angles. Unfortunately, the magical protractor had been long lost. But, one day the acute little triangle decided to set out and look for her magical protractor. She searched and searched for days on end. She looked in the land of rulers and the city of the vertex. She was sick and tired and ready to give up.

2. Then one day on her way home, the acute little triangle saw something up ahead. There was a funny equiangular triangle and a shape she had never heard of before. It was called a polygon. The funny equiangular triangle was quite like the acute little triangle having all his angles equal but the polygon was very different. He was not a triangle at all but a closed figure with more than two sides. And there was only two sides connecting to his vertices. He was very interesting. The interesting polygon told her stories of other lands with shapes that had different angles, sides, and vertices. He told her about a straight angle who’s angle measured 180 degrees and a reflex angle who’s angle measured over 180 degrees. He told her about complementary angles who with another would equal 90 degrees and supplementary angles who with another would equal 180 degrees. She learned about congruency, but most importantly, she learned that every shape was different. So the acute little triangle traveled to the very sad scalene and told him all she had learned. She told him it was okay to be different and that she loved him she loved him no matter what he was. So the very sad scalene became the happiest scalene she had ever met. And they all lived happily ever after.