Maths Quiz - Shapes 2 (Very Easy) (Answers)
Shapes are a very important part of maths and you will need to learn their names and their properties. Most shapes you come across are regular polygons, such as squares, hexagons and circles. But these are all 2-D shapes. You’ll also encounter 3 dimensional ones like cubes, cylinders and spheres.
This is the second of our Very Easy Eleven Plus maths quizzes on shapes. If you have already played the first then this one should be a doddle. Have a go and see if you can score ten out of ten.
Before you start, make sure that you read each question carefully and fully understand it before you pick your answer. Once you’ve mastered this, then move on to the next quiz. After all, the more practice you get with shapes, the better you will understand them and the more successful you will be in your exams. Good luck!
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3-D shapes are also known as solids. Solids have volume whilst 2-D shapes are ‘flat’
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Quadrilaterals have four sides (edges) and four corners (vertices). Squares and rectangles are both quadrilaterals
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If the sides weren't all the same length, it would be called an 'irregular' heptagon. Polygons are closed shapes that have three or more straight sides: pentagon (5 sides), hexagon (6 sides), heptagon (7 sides), octagon (8 sides), nonagon (9 sides), decagon (10 sides). Try to remember these if you can
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A rhombus is like a squashed square, and a parallelogram is like a squashed rectangle. Trapeziums have just one set of parallel sides
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Cubes are like 3-D squares. They have 8 corners (vertices), 6 faces (facets), and 12 edges
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The radius is half the diameter from the centre to the edge. The circumference is the distance around a circle, like the perimeter of other shapes. An arc is a part of the circumference
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There are lots of different types of triangle besides right-angled: equilateral, isosceles, scalene, acute and obtuse. You don’t need to know about all of these yet – but you will do much better at secondary school if you learn them early
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Cylinders are everywhere: tin cans, rolling pins, pipes, candles, torches, toilet rolls, pencils, straws… the list goes on!
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The internal angles of a quadrilateral always add up to 360o
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Cubes are 3-D shapes. Quadrilaterals are 4-sided, 2-D shapes
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