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Problem Solving

Can you find angles in the world around you?

Goal:

Goal:

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Practice!

Goal: Identify angles all around you.

In the next few slides, you will see pictures of angles that you might find. Choose the best phrase to describe the angles you find.

Look at Caleb’s bedroom. Find a right angle. Click Show Me for one example of a right angle that Caleb found.

A bedroom with a large map poster on the wall.
A bedroom with a large map poster on the wall. There is a right angle traced over the corner of the poster.

This is a playground in Dubai that Caleb can use in his wheelchair. How many obtuse angles can you find? Click the Show Me button to see what Caleb found!

A picture of a playground with a basket swing and shapes on the playground.
A picture of a playground with an obtuse angle traced over the basket swing and the swing rope.

Caleb is doing some work in his classroom. He looks around for acute angles. Can you find acute angles in his classroom? Click the Show Me button to see what Caleb finds.

A classroom with Caleb and his friends. The teacher is teaching a class.
A classroom with Caleb and his friends. The teacher is teaching a class. There is an acute angle traced over between the hands of the clock.