Nurse: A right angled formed when two objects are perpendicular to each other and it's like this, 90 degrees.
Male nurse: A completely flat line would be 180 and then you'd go onto a complete circle would be 360 degrees.
Nurse: When patients have back injuries, the doctors will recommend that they sit at certain angles in the bed.
Female Hairdresser: I think all haircuts are based around angles.
Male Hairdresser: Your angles are wrong, then your highlights or your all over colour, or your two-toned effect colour won't be shown correctly.
Builder: Well, everything sort of works off a right angle in a house for it to be square.
Builder wearing glasses: A typical staircase would be 42 degrees, a common roof pitch would be about 30 degrees, but they can go all the way up to 70 degrees, depending on what type of roof it is.
Angles measure how far something has turned, in degrees out of 360. 180° is a half turn.
Quick tips for tutors
Angles includes:
- Definitions of types of angle
- Activities that investigate where right angles are in the world around us
- How to measure angles
- Practising the measurement of angles
Downloadable Factsheets
Entry 3 - Right angles
An introduction to right angles.
Entry 3 - Right angles in the environment
How to make a protractor and identify right angles in the world around you.
Level 1 - Types of angles
Summary of different kinds of angles and their properties
Downloadable Worksheets
Entry 1 & 2 - Drawing angles
An activity in finding angles in pictures.
Entry 1 & 2 - Sorting angles
An activity around finding pictures with right angles in.
Entry 3 - Recognising right angles in the environment
Exercise in finding right angles in a photograph of objects and buildings.
Entry 3 - Identifying right angles
Exercise in finding right angles in different shapes.
Level 1 - Measuring angles with a protractor
Exercise in finding the size of angles using a protractor.
Level 1 - Identifying angles
Exercise in recognising different types of angles.
