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Maths Quiz - Year 2 Shapes - Properties of 2D Shapes (Questions)

This quiz addresses the requirements of the National Curriculum KS1 Maths and Numeracy for children aged 6 and 7 in year 2. Specifically this quiz is aimed at the section dealing with identifying and describing the properties of 2-D shapes, including the number of sides and line symmetry in a vertical line.

In KS1 children are taught to identify some of the properties of 2-dimensional shapes. Year 2 children begin to understand that some shapes have lines of symmetry. They will begin to explore this for themselves, perhaps by folding a shape exactly in half - the fold line then shows one line of symmetry.

This quiz will help children to identify the property of symmetry in a variety of 2-dimensional shapes.

[ ]	7
[ ]	4
[ ]	8
[ ]	2

[ ]	2
[ ]	6
[ ]	4
[ ]	3

[ ]	2
[ ]	4
[ ]	6
[ ]	8

[ ]	2
[ ]	1
[ ]	4
[ ]	5

[ ]	1
[ ]	3
[ ]	4
[ ]	2

[ ]	1
[ ]	2
[ ]	4
[ ]	5

[ ]	It doesn’t have any
[ ]	It only has one
[ ]	It has four
[ ]	Its lines of symmetry go on for ever

[ ]	2
[ ]	4
[ ]	0
[ ]	4

[ ]	3
[ ]	9
[ ]	4
[ ]	1

10.

[ ]	2
[ ]	6
[ ]	5
[ ]	4

Maths Quiz - Year 2 Shapes - Properties of 2D Shapes (Answers)

[ ]	7
[x]	4
[ ]	8
[ ]	2

From corner to corner, through the middle vertically and horizontally

[ ]	2
[ ]	6
[ ]	4
[x]	3

From each point to its opposite straight side

[x]	2
[ ]	4
[ ]	6
[ ]	8

This shape doesn’t have lines of symmetry from corner to corner like the square

[ ]	2
[x]	1
[ ]	4
[ ]	5

There is only one place this shape could be folded exactly in half – right down the middle

[ ]	1
[ ]	3
[ ]	4
[x]	2

The shape could be folded exactly in half from left to right or top to bottom

[x]	1
[ ]	2
[ ]	4
[ ]	5

There is only one place where this shape could be folded exactly in half

[ ]	It doesn’t have any
[ ]	It only has one
[ ]	It has four
[x]	Its lines of symmetry go on for ever

Circles have infinite lines of symmetry – you can fold them exactly in half all the way around!

[ ]	2
[ ]	4
[x]	0
[ ]	4

The shape can’t be folded in half exactly at all

[ ]	3
[ ]	9
[ ]	4
[x]	1

Only equilateral triangles have three lines of symmetry

10.

[ ]	2
[ ]	6
[ ]	5
[x]	4

Try to picture where you could fold the shape exactly in half