📐 Understanding Angles

What you’ll learn

1. What Is an Angle?Explain that an angle measures how much two lines open where they meet.When two straight lines meet at a point, they form an angle. The angle measures how much the lines open, like how wide a pair of scissors spreads. Angles can be small when the lines barely open or big when they spread wide apart.
2. Right AnglesIdentify right angles as exact 90 degree square corners and test for them.A right angle is a perfect square corner that measures exactly 90 degrees, like the corner of a book, window, or piece of paper. You can test for one by fitting the corner of a sheet of paper against it. A square has 4 right angles, one at each corner, which is why squares tile so neatly.
3. Acute and ObtuseTell acute (less than 90°) and obtuse (more than 90°) angles apart from right angles.Compared to a 90 degree right angle, an acute angle is smaller, sharper, and narrower, like the tip of a pizza slice. An obtuse angle is bigger, wider, and more open, like an open laptop. Shapes are full of angles too: a triangle has 3 and a square has 4 right angles.

Questions this course answers

Grounded in trusted sources

• PBS Kids — shapes and geometry
• Khan Academy Kids
• Britannica Kids
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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