Understanding angles
Recognise angles as a property of shape or a description of a turn
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Measuring Angles
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Angle measures support understanding what an angle is. Not every circle-circumference formula.
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Before you openAsk the learner to measure or compare one angle and say whether it is acute, right, or obtuse.
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Illustrative Mathematics. “Measuring Angles.” Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. External task; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute it.
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Check understanding
- Identify angles at the corners of 2-D shapes
- Describe a turn (e.g. quarter turn, half turn) in terms of the angle made
- Explain that an angle measures the amount of turn between two lines meeting at a point
“If you ask your child to point to an angle on the corner of a book or door frame, can they find it — and explain that swinging a door open is also a kind of turn (angle)?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Geometry
- Age range
- Ages 6–9
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