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Angles, triangles, symmetry: 4th grade math

Classify by lines and angles; line symmetry. A free 4th grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: classify by lines and angles; line symmetry.

Teach (10 min)

  • A right angle is a square corner, 90 degrees.
  • Acute is smaller. Obtuse is bigger, up to a straight line.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/geom.angles?lesson=4-geom-angle-1&at=4

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Use the first three questions on the printable sheet as a slip.

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Angles, triangles, symmetry (4th grade)

  1. What kind of angle is this? (Compare it to a square corner.)
  2. What kind of angle is this? (Compare it to a square corner.)
  3. What kind of angle is this? (Compare it to a square corner.)
  4. What kind of angle is this? (Compare it to a square corner.)
  5. What kind of angle is this? (Compare it to a square corner.)
  6. What kind of angle is this? (Compare it to a square corner.)
  7. What kind of angle is this? (Compare it to a square corner.)
  8. What kind of angle is this? (Compare it to a square corner.)
  9. What kind of angle is this? (Compare it to a square corner.)
  10. What kind of angle is this? (Compare it to a square corner.)
  11. What kind of angle is this? (Compare it to a square corner.)
  12. What kind of angle is this? (Compare it to a square corner.)
Key
  1. acute
  2. right
  3. right
  4. acute
  5. right
  6. right
  7. obtuse
  8. acute
  9. straight
  10. acute
  11. straight
  12. acute

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