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Angles

Draw an angle and see what it is called, drag a protractor over it and read the scale, or estimate against the clock. Both scales are on the protractor, because reading the wrong one is the mistake every class makes.

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Facts

Using it in class

Both scales, on purpose

A real protractor has two rings of numbers and children read the wrong one. So this one has both, and Hide the answer while we measure stops them checking before they have committed. Reading it is the skill, not owning it.

Estimating is marked kindly

Within 5° is a really good estimate, within 10° is close, and you always get told whether it was acute or obtuse rather than just "wrong". A child told 47° is wrong for a 45° angle learns that estimating is pointless.

The facts, on the diagram

Angles on a line, round a point, in a triangle and in a quadrilateral are buttons, not a list to copy down: press one and what is left over is worked out for you — and for a line or a point it is drawn in, and follows the arm as you drag it.