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Angle for Dummies

noun

pronunciation: 'æŋɡəl

What does Angle really mean?

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Angle is a really cool word! It's something we use to describe the shape or the measure of a turn. Just imagine you are standing at one end of a straight line, and you want to turn to face a different direction. The amount you turn is called an angle! It's like when you turn your head to look at something you are interested in. You change the position of your head, that's an angle too!

Angles can be big or small, and we measure them in degrees. A degree is like a little unit we use to measure how much you turned. It's kind of like a piece of pizza, where the whole pizza is a complete turn of 360 degrees. So, if you turned halfway around, you made a 180-degree angle! And if you turned just a little bit, like one-tenth of a full turn, then you made a 36-degree angle!

But angles are not just about turning around like in a circle. They are also used to describe the corners in shapes, like triangles, squares, or rectangles. When we talk about the angle of a corner, we mean how much the shape has turned there. It's like when you have a square piece of pizza, each corner has a 90-degree angle. If you have a triangle, one of the angles might be 60 degrees, and another one 45 degrees. So, angles can help describe the shapes of things too!

Angles are all around us! Have you ever seen a clock? The hour hand and the minute hand create different angles as they move around the clock face. It's really fascinating to see how the angles change as time goes by! When the minute hand reaches the 12 and the hour hand is pointing at the 6, that's a 180-degree angle! And when both hands point at the same number, like 3, that's a 0-degree angle, just like a completely straight line.

So, angles help us understand turns and corners. They can be big or small, and we measure them in degrees. We can use angles to describe how much something has turned or to describe the corners of shapes. Remember, there are 360 degrees in a full turn, just like a whole pizza! Isn't that fascinating? Angles are like little pieces in the puzzle that help us understand and describe the world around us.


Revised and Fact checked by James Thompson on 2023-10-28 23:46:30

Angle In a sentece

Learn how to use Angle inside a sentece

  • The corner of a triangle is an angle.
  • When you bend your elbow, the space between your arm and your forearm forms an angle.
  • The edge of a book where two pages meet forms a small angle.
  • The hands of a clock form different angles at different times.
  • When you fold a piece of paper to make a paper airplane, you create angles along the folds.