Teaching Geometry with Math Quiz Creator

Math Quiz Creator has several features that can help you teach your students how to identify basic geometric shapes, to recognize lines of symmetry, and to identify geometrically similar and congruent shapes. Download the free trial now to get started! Free Sample Quiz! Click the image to the right to get a free geometry worksheet. The quiz file used to create this worksheet is included with the Math Quiz Creator free trial.

Start With the Basics: Identifying Geometric Shapes

For younger students, the fundamentals of geometry begin with recognizing basic shapes and polygons. As students progress, more two-dimensional shapes and polygons can be added to their set of recognized shapes, and finally, three-dimensional shapes can be identified. Math Quiz Creator lets you control exactly which shapes might appear in your problems. This can offer some teaching opportunities. For example, adding the rhombus to the list of shapes that can be identified reinforces that a rectangle doesn't just have 4 sides - all of its angles must also be at ninety degrees.

Beyond Identification: Recognizing Symmetrical Shapes

Identifying lines of symmetry is a slightly more advanced problem as it can involve irregular shapes. Math Quiz Creator has dozens of pre-defined shapes that can be used to test your students' ability to recognize symmetrical shapes. By controlling what transformations can take place, you can set the problem difficulty to match your students' abilities. For beginning students, only allow rotations in ninety degree increments, for example. As your students' abilities increase, allow rotations in any increment, combined with scaling and reflections.

Thinking Geometrically: Similar and Congruent Shapes

Recognizing similar and congruent shapes is another problem type commonly found on standardized tests. Math Quiz Creator uses the same mechanism to control problem difficulty: you specify how many transformations are allowed for each shape and their type. To highlight the difference between similarity and congruency, Math Quiz Creator will often include a similar, but *not* congruent shape in the list of possible answers when identifying congruent shapes. Besides being a common feature of standardized tests, this makes it easy for the educator to spot students who haven't yet mastered the concept of similar shapes.

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Fractions are just one of several types of problem that are found in Math Quiz Creator. By introducing the simplest problems first, your students can quickly become comfortable with a concept that many students find quite difficult. If you'd like to learn more, Download a free trial now, or visit our Main Page to see the different ways that Math Quiz Creator can help you teach better.