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What type of shape is the paper?\u003Cbr>2) While drawing on some scrap paper, George drew a shape with 9 sides. What is the name of this shape he drew?\u003Cbr>3) The patterns on a soccer ball are hexagons and pentagons. How many sides does the Hexagon portion have?\u003Cbr>4) Carol bought a poster with 4 equal length sides. What shape was the poster she bought?\u003Cbr>5) While walking to school, Oliver saw a sign with 8 sides. What shape would the sign be?\u003Cbr>6) For an art project Tom cut a sheet of paper into a shape with 4 sides, but none of them were the same length. What type of shape was the paper?\u003Cbr>7) A stained glass window is made of hundreds of tiny heptagons. How many sides would each heptagon have?\u003Cbr>8) Mike was looking at coin shapes from other countries and found one with 10 sides. This coin is what shape?\u003Cbr>9) Emily was doing a craft project where she cut a piece of paper into a shape with\u003Cbr>7 sides. What is the name of this shape?\u003Cbr>10) The patterns on a soccer ball are pentagons and hexagons. How many sides does the pentagon portion have?\u003Cbr>11) Janet's family is building a pool in the shape of a nonagon. How many sides will the pool have?\u003Cbr>12) Luke sketched a logo into the shape of a decagon how many sides would the logo have?\u003Cbr>13) Bianca noticed that a table top had 5 sides. Because it has 5 sides, the top of the table would be what shape?\u003Cbr>14) While reading a book about buildings, Sarah saw a building with 6 sides. This building is an example of what shape?\u003Cbr>15) Cody heard that a shape with 3 sides has angles that will always equal 180° .\u003Cbr>What shape did he learn about? |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.  \u003Cbr>3.  \u003Cbr>4.  \u003Cbr>5.  \u003Cbr>6.  \u003Cbr>7.  \u003Cbr>8.  \u003Cbr>9.  \u003Cbr>10.  \u003Cbr>11.  \u003Cbr>12.  \u003Cbr>13.  \u003Cbr>14.  \u003Cbr>15.   |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| \u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>Math\u003Cbr>[www.CommonCoreSheets.com](www.CommonCoreSheets.com)\u003Cbr>1\u003Cbr>1-10\u003Cbr>11-15 | 93 | 87 | 80 |  | 73 | 67 | 60 | 53 | 47 | 40 | 33 |\n|  | 27 | 20 | 13 |  | 7 | 0 |  |  |  |  |  |\n\nIdentifying Shapes  \nName: Answer Key  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>1) A normal piece of notebook paper has 4 sides, 2 that are the same length and another 2 that are the same lenght. What type of shape is the paper? |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  rectangle  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) | While drawing on some scrap paper, George drew a shape with 9 sides. What is the name of this shape he drew? |  |  |  | 2.  nonagon  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 3) | The patterns on a soccer ball are hexagons and pentagons. How many sides does the Hexagon portion have? |  |  |  | 3.  6 \u003Cbr>4. square |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 4) | Carol bought a poster with 4 equal length sides. What shape was the poster she bought? |  |  |  | 5.  octagon  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 5) | While walking to school, Oliver saw a sign with 8 sides. What shape would the sign be? |  |  |  | 6.  quadrilateral  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 6) | For an art project Tom cut a sheet of paper into a shape with 4 sides, but none of them were the same length. What type of shape was the paper? |  |  |  | 7.  7 \u003Cbr>8. decagon |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 7) | A stained glass window is made of hundreds of tiny heptagons. How many sides would each heptagon have? |  |  |  | 9.  heptagon  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 8) | Mike was looking at coin shapes from other countries and found one with 10 sides. This coin is what shape? |  |  |  | 10.  5  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 9) | Emily was doing a craft project where she cut a piece of paper into a shape with |  |  |  | 11.  9  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 10) | 7 sides. What is the name of this shape?\u003Cbr>The patterns on a soccer ball are pentagons and hexagons. 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