Shape recognition worksheets
Circle or color the circles, squares, triangles and rectangles hidden in each row.
Rectangles up to 10 by 6 on a square grid, and students write both the area and the perimeter.
Rectangles up to 10 by 6 on a square grid, and students write both the area and the perimeter.
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Shapes are drawn on a unit-square grid, to scale. Students count the squares inside for the area and the unit lengths around the outside for the perimeter. Choose rectangles, or L shapes and U shapes made by joining rectangles, and ask for the area, the perimeter or both.
The missing side version gives a rectangle with its area or perimeter and one side, or an L shape with some sides labeled, and asks for the side marked with a question mark. Pictures are drawn to scale, and units are centimeters, inches, meters or feet.
US Letter or A4, portrait: choose your paper size above. Print at 100 percent (actual size). Use "Black and white" for the copier, or "Color" for display pages and mini books.
Circle or color the circles, squares, triangles and rectangles hidden in each row.
Above, below, next to, left of and right of: read a picture and circle the word that fits.
Longer, shorter, taller, bigger: circle the pencil, tree or circle that fits the word.