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Year 4 · Maths

Compare Geometric Shapes

Year 4 learners practise identifying and comparing triangles and quadrilaterals.

The activities include Identify Quadrilaterals, Identify Different Quadrilaterals, Identify Different Quadrilaterals Using Their Properties, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, worksheet, teaching, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Identify Quadrilaterals
  • Identify Different Quadrilaterals
  • Identify Different Quadrilaterals Using Their Properties
  • Identify Different Triangles
  • Identify Properties of Triangles
  • Name the Triangle
  • Name Triangles and Angles Correctly
  • Practise Naming Triangles and Angles

Checked learning resources

  • Angles in a Triangle | KS2 Maths Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Teacher-led KS2 video gives pupils missing-angle questions and models using the 180-degree angle sum, addition and subtraction to calculate the unknown angle.

  • Explore, sort and classify triangles

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Explore, sort and classify triangles. This Year 4 Oak lesson includes teacher explanation, worked examples and pupil questions showing how to identify properties of right-angled, isosceles, equilateral and scalene triang

  • Triangles Maths Activity Sheets

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Year 4 differentiated sheets ask pupils to recognise, identify and sort triangles using their side and angle properties.

  • Year 4 Classifying Triangles Video Lesson 2

    Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required

    Year 4 video classifies triangles by their angle sizes and links right-angled, acute and obtuse triangles to scalene, equilateral and isosceles triangle names.

  • What Are Angles in Maths?

    Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required

    Free KS2 guide explains that triangle angles total 180 degrees, then works the exact method: add the two known angles and subtract their sum from 180 to find the missing angle.

  • Calculating Missing Angles in Triangles

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    KS2 worksheet practises using triangle properties to calculate missing angles and then identify the resulting triangle type from its angle measures.

  • Year 4 Shape Lesson | Quadrilaterals PlanIt Maths Lesson 4

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Year 4 Shape Lesson | Quadrilaterals PlanIt Maths Lesson 4. This Year 4 Twinkl resource provides modelled maths teaching or printable practice to identify quadrilaterals from a description. They will also become familiar

  • Planit Y4 Properties Of Shape Lesson Pack Geometric Shapes 1

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Year 4 lesson pack for identifying equilateral, isosceles, scalene and right-angled triangles by their properties, with presentation and worksheets.