The unit test on classifying shapes and angles. Pages 1 and 2 are Form A. Pages 3 and 4 are Form B: the same questions in the same order with different shapes and numbers, for a retake, a make-up or a second seating. Each form has 12 questions, one point each, and a Score line on its first page. Questions 1 to 8 are the Common Core part of the unit; questions 9 to 12 (measuring and sorting angles, the angles of a triangle, and the radius and diameter of a circle) are for the states that teach them in 5th grade. The pre-check and the unit review are packs of their own.
Give Form A the day after the unit review. The shapes carry the marks students learn in the unit: ticks for equal sides, arrows for parallel sides and small squares for right angles. The test uses Animal Math's definition of a trapezoid, a quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides, so a parallelogram is a trapezoid too: it counts in the names of a rhombus or a rectangle (question 4, where the key notes it) and in the diagram of question 8. Each student needs a protractor for question 9; every angle is a whole number of degrees at its true size, so it measures right even when the page is copied smaller or larger. A measured angle may come out a degree or two off: accept it, and let students draw the rays longer to reach the protractor's scale. Most questions have two or more parts: give the point when every part is right, or split it among the parts. Questions 9 to 12 are taught in 5th grade in some states only: give the ones your class learns and score out of what you give. No question asks a problem from the unit's exit tickets or from the practice sheets the lessons use.
Use Form B as a check after the unit. Look for squares, rectangles and other four-sided shapes around the house, and ask your child for every name that fits each one.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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The unit test on classifying shapes and angles in two forms, from regular polygons to the quadrilateral hierarchy. Students sort polygons, name triangles and quadrilaterals from their marks, decide which properties a shape gets from its group, and place shapes in a diagram of groups inside groups.
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