Sometimes the best way to learn about a subject (or object) is to focus on its parts and the way those parts are related. When you study the relationships among various parts of a "whole," you are engaged in analysis. Each of the images below suggests a part-whole relationship that you may need to analyze at some point in your life. Click each image to learn more.

This lesson will help you understand more about triangles by focusing on a triangle's parts, namely its sides and angles. As you may remember from earlier lessons, a triangle's sides and angles, and the relationship between these parts, determine the type of triangle, which then determines the properties that apply to that shape.