Year 5 Shape/ Angles warm up questions 10 questions

A comprehensive set of geometry reasoning warm-up activities designed to develop understanding of angles and shape properties in Year 5.

This resource includes a 10-step sequence of “Do you agree or disagree?” reasoning prompts, each presenting a mathematical statement based on common misconceptions related to geometry.

Pupils are encouraged to:

Decide whether a statement is true or false

Explain and justify their reasoning clearly

Use correct mathematical vocabulary

What’s included:

10 structured reasoning steps

A range of angle and shape-based statements

Opportunities for discussion and mathematical explanation

Covers:

Acute, obtuse and reflex angles

Estimating and measuring angles

Angle relationships

Properties of polygons

Regular and irregular shapes

Reasoning about shape definitions

How it can be used:

Maths lesson starters

Whole-class discussion prompts

Partner or group reasoning tasks

Assessment for learning

Suitable for Year 5 and lower Year 6.