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Shape Families at the Art Museum

Grade 5 geometry practice at an art museum. Students show how features of parallelograms, rectangles, and rhombuses pass down to squares.

Grade 5MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to5.G.B.3

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 12 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 5
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students explain that features of a shape family belong to every shape in its subfamilies.
  • Students use features of rectangles and rhombuses to find side and diagonal lengths of squares.
  • Students spot reasoning that wrongly passes a feature up from a smaller family to a larger one.

How to use

Read the gallery plaques aloud first and sketch the shape family tree on the board. Ask students to name the plaque that supports each answer.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

5.G.B.3

Understand that features of a category of shapes belong to all shapes in its subcategories.

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Shape Families at the Art Museum

Use the gallery plaques to see how features pass down from a shape family to the shapes inside it.

Shape families

Read the gallery plaques. Use them to answer the questions in every section.

Gallery Plaques

Plaque A: Every quadrilateral has 4 straight sides and 4 angles.

Plaque B: Every parallelogram is a quadrilateral with 2 pairs of parallel sides. Its opposite sides are the same length.

Plaque C: Every rectangle is a parallelogram with 4 right angles. Its two diagonals are the same length.

Plaque D: Every rhombus is a parallelogram with 4 sides of the same length. Its two diagonals cross at right angles.

Plaque E: Every square is both a rectangle and a rhombus.

A diagonal is a line segment that joins two opposite corners of a shape.

1.
Finish each sentence. Choose the family that passes the feature down.
  1. A square has 4 right angles because every square is a ...
  2. A square has 4 sides of the same length because every square is a ...
  3. A rhombus has 2 pairs of parallel sides because every rhombus is a ...
  4. A parallelogram has 4 angles because every parallelogram is a ...
  1. A. quadrilateral
  2. B. rhombus
  3. C. parallelogram
  4. D. rectangle
2.
Which family names fit every rhombus? Choose all that are correct.
  • A. square
  • B. parallelogram
  • C. rectangle
  • D. quadrilateral

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