Test Taking Strategies
Shapes and Attributes
Angles and Lines
Area and Perimeter
Geometry Vocabulary
100

When you are answering multiple choice questions always do this.

What is cross out the crazies? 
100

This shape has 3 sides and 3 verticies.

What is a triangle?

100

A right angle measures how many degrees?

What is 90 degrees?

100

What is the perimeter of a rectangle that is 5 units long and 3 units wide?

What is 16 units?What is 16 units?

100

What do we call a flat, closed figure made up of straight lines?

What is a polygon?

200

These 3 things needs to be included in a math open response questions. 

What is an answer statement, labels, and steps to solve? 

200

This shape has 4 right angles and 2 pairs parallel lines?

What is a square? 

200

What do we call an angle that is smaller than a right angle?

What is an acute angle?

200

What is the area of a square with a side length of 4 units?

What is 16 square units?

200

A triangle with all sides the same length is called what?

What is an equilateral triangle?

300

If you don’t know the answer right away, what should you do?

What is skip it and come back later? Flag it? 

300

What do you call a shape with 6 sides?

What is a hexagon?

300

What kind of angle is larger than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees?


What is an obtuse angle?


300

If a rectangle has an area of 24 square units and a length of 6 units, what is the width?

What is 4 units?

300

What is the name for a corner or a point where two sides meet?

What is a vertex? What is an angle? 

400

When solving a word problem in math, what should you do first?

What is underline or highlight important information?

400

A rectangle must have opposite sides that are both _____ and _____.

What are equal and parallel?

400

Lines that never cross and are always the same distance apart are called what?


What are parallel lines?

400

What is the formula for the area of a rectangle? perimeter of a rectangle? 

What is length × width?

What is P= (Length + Width) x 2 

400

Which shape has only one pair of parallel sides: a square, rectangle, or trapezoid?

What is a trapezoid?

500

What is a good strategy to check your answers when you finish a test section early?

What is rework problems, reread answers, and check answer carefully?

500

What’s the difference between a square and a rhombus?

What is all angles in a square are right angles, but in a rhombus they don’t have to be?

500

What do you call two lines that cross and form four right angles?

What are perpendicular lines?

500

A rectangle has a length of 7 and a width of 2. What is its perimeter and area?

What is perimeter: 18 units; area: 14 square units?

500

What’s the difference between a line, a line segment, and a ray?

What is a line goes on forever, a line segment has two endpoints, and a ray has one endpoint?