A new discovery
Add a Side!
Triangle wheels make for a bumpy race. Can adding more sides smooth out the ride?
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3:00A song. A few new discoveries.
Count your way from triangles and quadrilaterals through pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons, nonagons and decagons. This cartoon compares regular polygon wheels as their sides increase. A circle has a curved boundary and is not a polygon.
Made for curious kids around ages 6–12 and the grown-ups watching with them. Music and animation created with AI tools under Mike Sego’s direction. YouTube’s video description includes the release notes and credits.
Read the sing-along lyrics
Smarty Party!
Ready, set... GO!
Ka-chunk! Ka-chunk! Ka-chunk!
Triangle wheels? Pit stop! Add a side!
Straight sides, flat shape, closed up tight,
That's a polygon! Count it right!
Where two sides meet, that's a corner, see?
Three sides, three corners: tri means three!
Triangle wheels go ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk!
Quad means four: quadrilateral! Ba-bump!
Penta means five, like home plate! Slide!
The name tells the number of sides!
Add a side! Add a side!
One more corner, smoother ride!
Three! Four! Five! Six! Seven! Eight! Nine! Ten!
Poly means many! Count 'em again!
Add a side! Add a side!
Poly-poly-polygon! Add a side!
Add a side!
Hexa means six, like a pencil, see?
Six flat sides, so it won't roll free!
Hepta means seven: heptagon!
Don't you skip it! Keep rolling on!
Octa means eight, like an octopus! Whoa!
Eight sides on a stop sign! Stop and go!
Add a side! Add a side!
One more corner, smoother ride!
Three! Four! Five! Six! Seven! Eight! Nine! Ten!
Poly means many! Count 'em again!
Add a side! Add a side!
Poly-poly-polygon! Add a side!
Tri! Quad! Penta! Hexa! Add a side!
Hepta! Octa! Nona! Deca! Add a side!
Nona means nine. Not none... it's nine!
Nonagon wheels, and we're rolling fine!
Deca means ten, like a decade of years,
Decagon wheels? The bumps nearly disappear!
Keep on adding, don't you stop!
Twelve, then twenty, to the top!
A hundred sides? It's hard to tell...
Looks like a circle! Rolls so well!
A circle has no corners, not a single one,
One smooth curve, and the bumps are done!
Add a side! Add a side!
One more corner, smoother ride!
Three! Four! Five! Six! Seven! Eight! Nine! Ten!
Poly means many! Count 'em again!
Add a side! Add a side!
Poly-poly-polygon! Add a side!
Tri! Quad! Penta! Hexa! Add a side!
Hepta! Octa! Nona! Deca! Add a side!
We won!
Hey! Come back, wheel!
Should've kept a corner.
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Lyrics from the published video’s caption file.
