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minus-squareSchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down3·3 months agoIf it was to scale you could just use a protractor and skip the whole math part, which is the entire part of the lesson…
minus-squareCoskii@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·3 months agoI don’t see that as a downside as long as these two questions are also included. How many degrees make up the inner angles of a triangle? How many degrees make up one side of a straight line?
minus-squareMaalus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·3 months agoBig assumption that the bottom line is straight / not two lines connecting at a different angle
minus-squareelxeno@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoThen they could use decimals so it’s unlikely to get it right without calculating, 60.17°, 40.29°, 35.43°
minus-squarePacattack57@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down3·3 months agoAnd what’s wrong with that. Utilizing real world solutions to problems is a life skill. Not some obscure formula that you will forget anyway.
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·3 months agoAdding and subtracting is a real life solution. Not sure how that is “obscure”
minus-squarePacattack57@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down5·2 months agoYou are being obtuse. You know what I mean by obscure.
minus-squareGlemek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoIts intended to focus on a specific skill, the other skill can be valid and not be the point of the lesson.
If it was to scale you could just use a protractor and skip the whole math part, which is the entire part of the lesson…
I don’t see that as a downside as long as these two questions are also included.
How many degrees make up the inner angles of a triangle?
How many degrees make up one side of a straight line?
Big assumption that the bottom line is straight / not two lines connecting at a different angle
Then they could use decimals so it’s unlikely to get it right without calculating, 60.17°, 40.29°, 35.43°
And what’s wrong with that. Utilizing real world solutions to problems is a life skill. Not some obscure formula that you will forget anyway.
Adding and subtracting is a real life solution. Not sure how that is “obscure”
You are being obtuse. You know what I mean by obscure.
Its intended to focus on a specific skill, the other skill can be valid and not be the point of the lesson.