TED-Ed
Why Do Honeybees Love Hexagons?
Float like a butterfly, think like a bee! Build a huge hive, hexagonally! Find out the reason that hexagons are the most efficient storage shape for the honeybees' honeycombs. This neat little video would be a sweet addition to...
Curated OER
Ty Burrell: Hexagon
Ty Burrell and Abby identify the characteristics of a hexagon. They discuss sides and angles. Through trial and error Abby finally identifies a hexagon.
Curated OER
What is a Polygon?
What makes a figure a polygon? Does it have three or more sides? Is it a closed figure? If the answer is yes to both of those questions then it's a polygon. But wait! Some of these polygons have special names based on the number of sides...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Why Beehive Honeycombs Have a Hexagonal Shape
In this video [26:45], students discover why honeybees make such great engineers by studying the underlying mathematics and design of their beehives.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Hexagons
In this video segment [1:55] from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad tessellates hexagons to finish crossing the lava river.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Geometry: Area of a Regular Hexagon
This video [7:50] demonstrates how to determine the area a regular hexagon with side length of 2 sq. rt. 3 based on knowledge of 30-60-90 triangles and the area formula of a triangle.
Virtual Nerd
Virtual Nerd: What Is a Polygon?
This tutorial explains the properties of a polygon, the names of the most popular polygons, and teaches how to identify polygons. [5:41]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Hexaflexagons: Hexaflexagons 2
This video is based on, and in honor of, Martin Gardner's column from 1956, "Hexaflexagons," which can be found here: http://maa.org/pubs/focus/Gardner_Hexaflexagons12_1956.pdf. For more information, see the top comment below.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Regular Polygons
Understand the what a regular polygon is and examples of regular polygons in this video tutorial. Assess learning with a quiz. [3:17]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Special Right Triangles: Area of a Regular Hexagon
This video demonstrates how to determine the area a regular hexagon using what we know about triangles.
Expansion Learning
Expansion Learning: Shape Basics (Part Three)
Video provides students with an explanation of the basic shapes of hexagon, trapezoid, and parallelogram.