What's an angle buddy?

We had a great time this week creating our angle buddies! As part of our geometry unit, students have learned about the three types of angles. Click here for a helpful post about angles from 2017. That day we also had some fun working with Tangrams and tried very hard to put them back together to form a square. We used the Tangrams to create the angle buddies, which students were asked to label.

As part of our ongoing discussion about non-fiction text features, we also talked about the purpose of a diagram, which is to help a reader better understand the specific parts of a bigger picture.  We talked about when we label something, the information needs to be crystal clear to the reader, otherwise, we're really not creating a helpful resource.  It was a great math lesson and one that I hope helped my students understand better the three types of angles and why presentation is so essential to creating an effective diagram!