Prepare Your Students for Math Assessments: Geometry Test Prep Activities

Looking for geometry test prep activities?

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… Standardized testing!

Or maybe I should say, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year (when it’s over!).”

All jokes aside, I know you’ve probably been thinking about those last few topic areas that will be seen on this year’s math assessments that you haven’t been able to cover yet.

Is, by chance, a geometry unit one of those areas? Don’t worry – You’re not alone, my friend!

Geometry is definitely one of those units that can be intimidating to students.

It’s a unit that involves so many different learning points – shapes, angle measurement, symmetry, area measurement – and we’re getting to a point in the school year where it can be tricky to keep our students involved, motivated, and enthusiastic about learning. 

To keep things fun and interactive in your classroom as you prepare for your math assessments, I’d love to share with you a few geometry resources and activities that will make teaching (and learning) so much more enjoyable!

Activities and learning that I know your students will retain and will help them ace those math assessments later this spring!

Geometry Test Prep Activities

Common Core Geometry Bundle

For all of your partitioning, polygon, and quadrilateral needs! 🙂 

You will LOVE this virtual bundle – click here to check it out.

When teaching equal parts, this Partitioning Shapes product works with halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, and sixths.

Students will work with different shapes to determine if they are partitioned into equal parts, as well as identifying how many parts are present.

It also allows students to partition shapes themselves by using the digital tools associated with the product.

The Google Classroom Polygon resource includes a variety of questions involving sorting, matching, identification, and even drawing!

It really focuses on building a solid foundation of naming shapes and identifying the differences between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes. 

The Quadrilateral resource helps students focus on shapes that are categorized as quadrilaterals and ones that are not, identifying the names of shapes that are, as well as working with parallel lines and different angles.

I love this resource because it utilizes other learning manipulatives as well such as digital tangrams and geoboards.

Geometry Interactive Notebook Bundle

There are 5 products included in this interactive notebook bundle focusing on congruency, lines, polygons, angles, and quadrilaterals – a total of 31 activities!

My students had a tendency of getting lines, line segments, and rays confused when adding a discussion involving different types of angles.

There are a lot of areas of discussion when it comes to geometry and my favorite part about this bundle is how deep each interactive notebook digs into each area, allowing your students to get the most out of each topic!

Check out the whole bundle here!

Geometry Read-Alouds

I have a whole list of awesome geometry read-alouds that I know your students will LOVE.

Using read-alouds is so much fun in math, and can be unexpected with students!

Some of my favorites include (Amazon Affiliate links below)

• I Spy Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwait
• If You Were A Quadrilateral by Marcie Aboff
• Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland by Cindy Neushwander

Check out the whole list here.

Solid Sort`

I love this geometry center for test prep because of the real-world examples that are pulled in and how it requires students to become familiar with the characteristics of shapes.

Just click on the link to snag 

Solid Sort comes with 80 different cards for students to categorize shapes with real-life objects. For example, a globe would be categorized as a sphere. A soda can would be a cylinder.

These life connections help make geometry a little more relatable when preparing for math assessments!

Color Collage

One of my favorite ways to incorporate art into geometry is to create color collages on a piece of construction paper.

Have each student begin with a white piece of construction paper and multiple pieces of long, narrow paper.

These pieces of pre-cut paper need to be long enough that when placed across the white piece of construction paper, they are overlapping on either side.

For example, if your white construction paper is a standard 12×18 size, I would recommend using strands of paper that are roughly 1-inch wide, and 2-3 inches longer than the diagonal of the construction paper. It doesn’t matter what color they are.

Each student will begin by placing the strands of paper over the top of their white piece of construction paper. Each piece of paper they lay over the top needs to overlap on either side of their background so that each end can be taped down to their working area. This way the pieces of paper will be set, but won’t have to be taped to the large construction paper and ruin the background! Encourage them to place the strands at different angles, as well as some going vertical and horizontal. 

Once the students have finished placing all the pieces of paper over the top (there really isn’t a set limit of pieces for this – but the more, the better!), they can start tracing around the edges of their pieces laid across the large piece of construction paper.

When finished tracing, remove all the taped pieces of paper. Each student will be left with a collage of different shapes, lines, and angles! I encourage you to discuss with your students if they notice any parallel or perpendicular lines, shapes that were created (by total accident!), as well as measuring a few of the angles together! 

Color each area of the construction paper a different color or theme to create the end collage. 🙂 This is a perfect activity to incorporate a little creativity while still gearing up for math assessments!

Virtual Manipulatives for geometry test prep activities

Of course if you’ve been following me for a while, you know my love for all things digital. 

Didax is an awesome website that gives you access to free virtual manipulatives to supplement your geometry activities. You can find virtual pattern blocks here, as well as virtual geoboards!

I hope these resources and activities are helpful to you and take some of the burdens off of finding engaging and interactive geometry lessons for your test prep! Your students are going to crush their math assessments! 🙂

Pin for later