Identifying Shapes Worksheets
How to Identify Two- and Three-Dimensional Shapes - There are two types of shapes in geometry: two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes. Two-dimensional shapes are the ones that have a length and a height and exist in a two-axis planes. Three-dimensional shapes are those that exist in the three-axis plane, have a length, height, and breadth. Some examples of two-dimensional shapes include circle, square, rectangle, and triangle. Some examples of three-dimensional shapes include cubes, cuboid, sphere, prisms, and cylinders. This is how you identify two- and three-dimensional shapes.
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Independent Practice 1
Students color shapes to reinforce shape identification. The answers can be found below.
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Independent Practice 2
This practice sheet asks students to identify shapes based on the colors provided.
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Independent Practice 1
Students identify the names of common shapes. The answers can be found below.
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Independent Practice 2
A rework of practice sheet number 1. The answers can be found below.
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What's the Point?
Bumper stickers in the math parking lot:
"The only angle from which to approach a problem is the TRY-angle!"
The word "square" is derived from the Latin "ex quadron"
which is also the root of the words squadron or squad, words which refer
to troops drawn up in a battle square. "To square off" is to assume a posture
of defense or offense.