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Shape families: 5th grade math

Hierarchy of 2-D figures. A free 5th 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: hierarchy of 2-D figures.

Teach (10 min)

  • A square has all that a rectangle needs, so every square is a rectangle.
  • But not every rectangle is a square.
  • 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.hierarchy?lesson=5-geom-hier-1&at=5

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. True or false: every rhombus is a quadrilateral.
  • 2. True or false: every square is a rectangle.
  • 3. True or false: every parallelogram is a quadrilateral.

Question set

10 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. True or false: every rhombus is a quadrilateral.
  2. True or false: every square is a rectangle.
  3. True or false: every parallelogram is a quadrilateral.
  4. True or false: every rhombus is a quadrilateral.
  5. True or false: every rectangle is a square.
  6. True or false: every square is a rectangle.
  7. True or false: every rectangle is a parallelogram.
  8. True or false: every parallelogram is a rhombus.
  9. True or false: every parallelogram is a quadrilateral.
  10. True or false: every square is a rhombus.
Answers
  1. True
  2. True
  3. True
  4. True
  5. False
  6. True
  7. True
  8. False
  9. True
  10. True

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Shape families (5th grade)

  1. True or false: every rhombus is a rectangle.
  2. True or false: every parallelogram is a rhombus.
  3. True or false: every rhombus is a quadrilateral.
  4. True or false: every square is a quadrilateral.
  5. True or false: every quadrilateral is a parallelogram.
  6. True or false: every rectangle is a rhombus.
  7. True or false: every rectangle is a rhombus.
  8. True or false: every square is a rhombus.
  9. True or false: every quadrilateral is a rectangle.
  10. True or false: every square is a rhombus.
  11. True or false: every square is a quadrilateral.
  12. True or false: every rhombus is a parallelogram.
Key
  1. False
  2. False
  3. True
  4. True
  5. False
  6. False
  7. False
  8. True
  9. False
  10. True
  11. True
  12. True

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