Free · Grades 2–3 · Six four-sided shapes
Working on naming quadrilaterals? Print this sheet as it is, or change the level and questions first. You can also answer it on screen — it is the same sheet either way.
The answer key prints on a separate page.
Six four-sided shapes and four of their names under each figure. Because every option has four sides, the side count — which answered the earlier sheet — is now useless, and the child has to look at what actually separates them: whether the opposite sides run parallel, whether all four are the same length, whether the corners are square. That is CCSS 2.G.A.1, and it is the reason this is a separate sheet rather than a harder setting on the last one.
The distinctions worth knowing are the ones these six force. A square is a rhombus with square corners. A rhombus is a parallelogram with four equal sides. A kite has two pairs of equal sides but they sit next to each other rather than opposite. A trapezoid has exactly one pair of parallel sides. Each of these is a small rule, and a page mixing all six asks for each of them in turn.
