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What Are the Different Types of Angles?An angle is a geometric figure that is formed when two lines meet each other at a point. Typically, we measure angles in degrees, and a complete turn of the angle measures up to 360 degrees. Straight angles are half of one whole turn and resemble a straight line the measure of these angles in 180 degrees. In simpler terms, the straight angle is the same as the angle formed by two rays drawn in the opposite direction. Right angles are one-quarter of the one whole turn and measure up to 90 degrees. These angles look like angles formed by a vertical line and a horizontal line. Acute angles are those angles that measure between 0 degrees to 90 degrees. Obtuse angles are those angles that measure between 90 degrees and 180 degrees. Angles that measure between a straight line (180 degrees) and a whole turn (360 degrees) are known as the reflex angle.

  • Basic Lesson

    Guides students through solving Angle Word Problems. Two complementary angles measure x and 40 degrees.How many degrees are there in x?

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  • Intermediate Lesson

    Demonstrates the concept of advanced skill while solving Angle Word Problems. Two complementary angles measure (3x+15) and (x+12) degrees. What is thevalue of x?

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  • Independent Practice 1

    A really great activity for allowing students to understand the concepts of the Angle Word Problems. Two vertical angles measure x and35 degrees. How many degrees are there inx?

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  • Independent Practice 2

    Students use Angle Word Problems in 20 assorted problems. The answers can be found below.

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  • Homework Worksheet

    Students are provided with 12 problems to achieve the concepts of Angle Word Problems.

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  • Skill Quiz

    This tests the students ability to understand Angle Word Problems.

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  • Answer Key

    Answers for all lessons and independent practice.

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  • Basic Lesson

    Guides students through solving Types of Angles.

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  • Intermediate Lesson

    Demonstrates the concept of advanced skill while Guides solving Types of Angles.

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  • Independent Practice 1

    A really great activity for allowing students to understand the concepts of the Types of Angles.

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  • Independent Practice 2

    Students use Types of Angles in 20 assorted problems. The answers can be found below.

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  • Homework Worksheet

    Students are provided with 12 problems to achieve the concepts of Types of Angles.

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  • Skill Quiz

    This tests the students ability to understand Types of Angles.

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  • Answer Key

    Answers for all the math worksheets and printables.

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The measure of an inscribed angle is always half the measure of the central angle with the same endpoints. Since the diameter divides the circle into two equal parts, any angle formed by the two endpoints of a diameter and a third distinct point on the circle as the vertex is a right angle. Need some help figuring out how to work with angles in geometry? Look no further. From Ramanujan to calculus co-creator Gottfried Leibniz, many of the world's best and brightest mathematical minds have belonged to autodidacts. And, thanks to the Internet, it's easier than ever to follow in their footsteps (or just finish your homework or study for that next big test). Worksheets Math Grade 5 Geometry Estimating angles. How many degrees? Estimating angles. In these worksheets, students estimate angles based on the diagrams shown. These worksheets are printable pdf files. Similar: Classifying angles Classify and measure angles. Polygon Angles - Sample Math Practice Problems The math problems below can be generated by MathScore.com, a math practice program for schools and individual families. References to complexity and mode refer to the overall difficulty of the problems as they appear in the main program.

What Are Complementary, Supplementary, and Vertical Angles?

Complementary Angles - A pair of angles is said to be complementary when the sum of two angles adds up to be 90 degrees. The two angles in consideration form a right angle. For example, if we are given an angle that measures 40 degrees, the next angle has to be 50 degrees, if we have to make it a complementary angle. If you are given a complementary angle, you can be asked to calculate the measure of another angle. To solve this problem, you will need to figure out the measure of the next angle that, when added to the given angle, adds up to 90 degrees. You will have to subtract the given angle and subtract it from 90 degrees. For example, if you are given 55 degrees, you will subtract this angle from 90 degrees to get the measure of the next angle. Supplementary Angles - A pair of angles is said to be supplementary when the two angles add up to 180 degrees. Supplementary angles look like a straight line, which means two angles together will form a straight line. For example, two angles 65 and 115 degrees are supplementary as they add up to 180 degrees and form a straight line. Vertical Angles - When we have two lines intersecting each other, the angles present opposite to each other. We typically get four angles when two intersect each other, but the pair that measures the same is known as the vertical angle.

This fourth grade geometry lesson teaches the definitions for a line, ray, angle, acute angle, right angle, and obtuse angle. We also study how the size of the angle is ONLY determined by how much it has 'opened' as compared to the whole circle. The lesson contains many varied exercises for students.

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This is point A.
Points are named
with capital letters.
When two points are connected with a straight
line, we get a line segment. We call this line
segment AB or line segment AB(note the bar on top).
The sides of a triangle
are line segments.

A line has no beginning point or end point. Imagine it continuing indefinitely in both directions.
We can illustrate that by little arrows on both ends.

We can name a line using two points on it. This is line EF or line (note the arrowheads).
Or, we can name a line using a lowercase letter: this is line s.

A ray starts out at a point and continues off to infinity. We can show
that by drawing an arrow at one end of the ray. Think of the sun's rays:
they start at the sun and go on indefinitely.

We can name a ray using its starting point and one other point that is
on the ray: this is ray QP or ray (note the one arrowhead). Or, we can
name a ray using a lowercase letter: this is ray r.

What is an angle? Many people think that an angle is some kind of
slanted line. But in geometry an angle is made up of two rays that
have the same beginning point.

That point is called the vertex and the two rays are called the sides
of the angle.

To name an angle, we use three points, listing the vertex in the middle.
This is angle DEF or ∠DEF. We can use the symbol ∠ for angle.

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1. Write if each figure is a line, ray, line segment, or an angle, and name it.

a. _______________________

b. _______________________

c. _______________________

d. _______________________

e. _______________________

f. _______________________

2. a. Find the angle formed by the rays DE and DF.
How do we name it?

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b. Find the angle formed by the rays CA and CE.
How do we name it?

c. What is BD? (a line, a line segment, or a ray)?

3. a. Draw two points, D and E. Then draw line DE.

b. Draw point Q not on the line.

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c. Draw rays DQ and EQ.

d. Find angles EDQ and DEQ in your drawing.


Imagine that the two sides of the angle start side by side, and then
open up to a certain point. When the two sides “open up”, they draw
an imaginary arc of a circle. (You can illustrate this with two pencils as the
two sides of an angle. Keep one pencil stationary while you rotate the other.)

If the angle opens up to a full
circle, we say the angle is
360 degrees (360°).


This angle is half of the full circle,
so it measures 180°. It is called
the straight angle.

Your two pencils (rays) are lying
down flat or straight on the floor.


This is one-fourth of the
full circle, so it is 90°.

This is called the right
angle. Table and book
corners are right angles.

In each of these pictures the angle is opened more and more and keeps getting bigger. The arc of the circle is larger.

These angles are acute angles, which means they are less than a right angle (less than 90°). Think of acute angles as sharp angles. If someone stabbed you with the vertex of an acute angle, it would feel sharp.

Here's another way of thinking about angles. Think of a sun rising in the morning in the horizon, gradually getting higher, and traveling through the sky along an arc of a circle.


How big is the angle?

It does not matter how long the sides of the angle are. Remember, they are rays, and rays go on indefinitely. But when we draw them on paper, we have to draw them as ending somewhere.

The sides of the angle might even seem to have different lengths. That doesn't matter either. The size of the angle is ONLY determined by how much it has “opened” as compared to the whole circle. Think how big an arc of a circle the sides have drawn, as compared to a whole circle.

Which of these two angles is bigger?
Look at how much the angle has opened?
How big a part of a circle have the sides drawn?
The second angle (on the right) is bigger.
Many times the arrows are omitted from the rays, and the
arc of the circle is drawn as a tiny arc near the vertex.
Even that is not necessary. Which of these is a bigger angle?
Again, the second one.

4. Which angle is bigger?

a. OR
b. OR
c.OR
d.OR
e. OR
f. OR

5. a. Sketch three different
acute angles.

b. Sketch three different
obtuse angles.

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c. Sketch a right angle
and a straight angle.


6. Label the angles as acute, right, obtuse, or straight. To help, make these angles with two pencils,
checking how much you need to open up the angle.

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.

7. A triangle has three angles. In fact, the word tri-angle means a three-angled shape.

Which of the triangles
a, b, or c has one
obtuse angle?


Which has one right angle?

a. b. c.

8. (Optional) Make a geometry notebook where you write down each new term and draw a picture or
pictures that illustrate the term. Use colors and tidy writing. It is like your personal geometry
dictionary. You can also do any drawing problems from the lessons in it. Drawing and writing
yourself, instead of just reading, can help you remember the terms better!

Math Problem Solvingcircles And Angles Theorem

New Terms
  • a line
  • a line segment
  • a ray
  • an angle
  • an acute angle
  • a right angle
  • an obtuse angle

  • a straight angle

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This lesson is taken from Maria Miller's book Math Mammoth Geometry 1, and posted at www.HomeschoolMath.net with permission from the author. Copyright © Maria Miller.


Math Mammoth Geometry 1

A self-teaching worktext for 4th-5th grade that covers angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, cirlce, symmetry, perimeter, area, and volume. Lots of drawing exercises!

Download ($6.90). Also available as a printed copy.

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