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Features

Six questions on what the shapes and angles unit builds on
Count the right angles and pairs of parallel sides of a shape on dot paper
Write acute, right or obtuse for three angles, and measure an angle with a protractor
Circle every parallelogram, a rectangle and a rhombus among them
Find an unknown angle on a straight line, and double and halve a number
A Score line, to sort the class before the unit
Answer key names the lesson each question leads into

Skills Covered

Right angles and parallel sides
Acute, right and obtuse angles
Every parallelogram

Measure an angle
An unknown angle on a straight line
Double and halve

How to Use This Pack

One page to give on the first day of the unit on classifying shapes and angles, before any teaching. Its six questions are on the 3rd and 4th grade work the unit builds on: right angles and parallel sides on dot paper, acute, right and obtuse angles, every parallelogram among quadrilaterals, measuring an angle with a protractor, an unknown angle on a straight line, and doubling and halving. It has a Score line, and the key names the lesson each question leads into. The unit review and the unit test are packs of their own.

In the Classroom

Give the pre-check on the first day and sort the class by what they missed: a student who misses the right angles and parallel sides needs to mark them on shapes before naming triangles and quadrilaterals, and one who leaves the rectangle or the rhombus out of the parallelograms needs the lessons on groups inside groups most. Each student needs a protractor for question 4. A low score is no surprise; it shows where to start.

At Home

Use it to see what your child needs before the unit starts: look for right angles and parallel lines in a window or a book, and ask whether a square is a rectangle.

Tips for Success

Give it before the first lesson, not after
Read the score as a starting point, not a grade
Have a protractor for every student
The key names the lesson each question leads into

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

4.MD.C.5a Know an angle's size is the share of a circle (centered at its vertex) between its rays; one degree is 1/360 of a full turn.
4.MD.C.5b Know that an angle made of some number of one-degree turns measures that many degrees, so 50 one-degree turns make 50°.
4.MD.C.6 Use a protractor to find the size of an angle to the nearest whole degree, and draw angles of a given size.
4.MD.C.7 Know that angle measures add up when an angle is split into parts, and find unknown angles in diagrams by adding or subtracting, using equations.
4.G.A.1 Draw and find points, lines, line segments, rays, right, acute and obtuse angles, and parallel and perpendicular lines, including in flat shapes.
4.G.A.2 Sort flat shapes by whether they have parallel or perpendicular lines or angles of a certain size, and recognize right triangles as a group.
5.G.B.3 Know that a shape in a smaller group has every feature of the larger group: squares are rhombuses, so all squares have four equal sides.
5.G.B.4 Sort flat shapes into a hierarchy by their properties, such as polygons, quadrilaterals, parallelograms, rectangles and squares.

5th Grade Shapes and Angles Pre-Check

5th Grade

A check to give before the unit on classifying shapes and angles, on the shapes, angles and facts it builds on. Students count right angles and parallel sides, sort angles, pick out parallelograms, measure an angle, find an angle on a straight line, and double and halve numbers.

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What’s Included

A one-page pre-check (6 questions) with a Score line
An answer key that names each question's lesson and skill (2 pages in all)

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