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Triangles & Quadrilaterals questions for Primary 4 Maths
10 questions to work through online. Answer and you get the working straight away, then a score at the end. No sign-up, and you can retake it as often as you like.
- Naming shapes
- Counting sides
- Triangles
- Counting corners
- Properties
- Angles in shapes
Answers and explanations for all 10 questions
Every answer with the reasoning behind it. Worth reading after you have tried the set — or on its own, if you are a parent marking it.
Which shape has 4 equal sides and 4 right angles?
Answer: Square
Only a square has both 4 equal sides and 4 right angles.
How many sides does a hexagon have?
Answer: 6
A hexagon has 6 sides and 6 corners.
Which shape has 4 equal sides but no right angles?
Answer: Rhombus
A rhombus has 4 equal sides, but its corners are not right angles.
A triangle has all three sides of the same length. What is it called?
Answer: Equilateral
An equilateral triangle has three equal sides and three equal angles of 60°.
How many corners does a pentagon have?
Answer: 5
A pentagon has 5 sides, and therefore 5 corners.
Which statement about a square is TRUE?
Answer: Every square is also a rectangle
A rectangle is a shape with four right angles, and a square has four right angles, so every square is a rectangle.
Which shape has exactly one pair of parallel sides?
Answer: Trapezium
A trapezium has exactly one pair of parallel sides.
What do the three angles of any triangle add up to?
Answer: 180°
The angles of every triangle add up to 180°, whatever its shape.
A four-sided shape has opposite sides equal and parallel, but no right angles. What is it?
Answer: Parallelogram
A parallelogram has both pairs of opposite sides equal and parallel, with slanting corners.
Three angles of a quadrilateral are 90°, 85° and 100°. What is the fourth angle?
Answer: 85°
A quadrilateral's angles add to 360°: 90 + 85 + 100 = 275, and 360 − 275 = 85°.