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Use this resource to help your students develop their understanding of trapezoids and other two-dimensional shapes. Students will compare the attributes of trapezoids to those of other plane figures, such as triangles and ovals, in this geometry activity.

Children must decide each of six shapes is symmetrical or asymmetrical in this hands-on worksheet.

Can you see the symmetry? Use this resource with your students to practice identifying shapes with symmetry. After your students identify the symmetrical shapes, they will draw a line of symmetry.

This worksheet will give your child practice learning the difference between similar and congruent shapes.

Transfer student’s understanding of calculating the volume of rectangular prisms to calculating the volume of irregular shapes.

It's not everyday that you see shapes like these! This worksheet helps your third grader practice finding the area of compound shapes.

Strengthen your child's geometry skills with this printable worksheet. Use this resource with your students to classify two-dimensional shapes like parallelograms, quadrilaterals, squares, and triangles.

What makes a sphere unique compared to other shapes? Does it share any similarities? Use this resource with your young mathematicians to practice identifying the characteristics of this three-dimensional shape and comparing it to other shapes.

Knowing how to identify right angles is a huge part of geometry. Help your child get to know his right angle shapes with this worksheet.

What is the name of this shape? Is it a parallelogram or square? Teach your students to classify two-dimensional shapes using a Venn diagram.

Use this fun exercise with your students to practice finding the area of shapes by counting unit squares.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Naming Shapes and their Attributes.

Can your students differentiate between a pentagon and a hexagon or circle? Can they explain what makes these shapes unique? This resource will give your students practice identifying the characteristics of a pentagon and comparing it to other 2-D shapes.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Naming Shapes and their Attributes.

It’s time to flex your math muscles with this great geometry activity! Use this resource with your students as they practice identifying and counting angles in different two-dimensional shapes.

Practice identifying parallel and perpendicular lines in the context of 2D shapes with this fourth-grade geometry worksheet!

What makes a hexagon a hexagon? How is it different from other polygons? This handy geometry resource with help your students to practice identifying the characteristics of a hexagon and comparing them to other two-dimensional shapes.

What makes a trapezoid unique? How is it different from a hexagon or a pentagon? Use this resource with your students to practice identifying the characteristics of a trapezoid and comparing them to other 2-D shapes.

A key characteristic of trapezoids is that they have a set of parallel lines—lines that never intersect. Use this helpful geometry resource with your students to practice identifying parallel lines in trapezoids and comparing different 2-D shapes.

What makes a cylinder a cylinder? How does it compare to a cube or cone? Use this great geometry resource with your students to practice identifying the characteristics of a cylinder and comparing them to other three-dimensional shapes.

What makes a cone different from a cylinder or a cube? Use this helpful resource with your students to take their geometry skills to the next level as they practice identifying the characteristics of a cone and comparing them to other 3-D shapes.

Chances are your child already knows a few geometry terms. Give him an introduction to the mathematical aspects of shape recognition with this worksheet.

Use this worksheet as a formative assessment for your students as they study the characteristics of polygons.

Centimeter cubes have gone wild with these irregular shapes! Students will be challenged to calculate the volume of different shapes by counting the cubes.

Angles come in all kinds of shapes and sizes—can you spot them all? Use this resource with your students to practice finding all the angles in 2-D shapes. Your students will then be challenged to identify right angles in two-dimensional shapes.