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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Add a Side!3:00

A 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. Smarty Party Songs! Like, subscribe, PARTY!

Lyrics from the published video’s caption file.

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