Shapes, arrays and equal shares: printable worksheets

Count sides, angles and faces, split rectangles into rows and columns of squares, and make halves, thirds and fourths.

Sample worksheet

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Sides Vertices

Angles

Shade one half.

How many shares?

Name the shares:

How many squares?

Squares:

Show answers

1.3 sides, 3 vertices, 3 angles

3.2, halves

4.2 rows of 2 = 4

What students practise

I can describe shapes by their sides and corners and split a shape into equal shares.

Students tell the defining attributes of shapes, put shapes together, and partition circles and rectangles into equal shares named with the words halves, thirds and fourths.

Key words

half: one of two equal shares
third: one of three equal shares
fourth (quarter): one of four equal shares
equal shares: parts that are exactly the same size
side: a straight edge of a flat shape
vertex: the point where two sides meet

Common mistakes

Counts the parts without checking that they are the same size.
Thinks more parts means a bigger share.

Standards

Common Core State Standards this worksheet practises.

2.G.A.1: Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. (unverified)
2.G.A.2: Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares and count to find the total number of them. (unverified)
2.G.A.3: Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. (unverified)

Before this: Shapes and equal shares (Grade 1)