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minus-squareSchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·4 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-squareCoskiilinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 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-squarePacattack57@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 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-up10·4 months agoAdding and subtracting is a real life solution. Not sure how that is “obscure”
minus-squarePacattack57@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoYou are being obtuse. You know what I mean by obscure.
minus-squareGlemek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoIts intended to focus on a specific skill, the other skill can be valid and not be the point of the lesson.
minus-squareelxeno@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 months agoThen they could use decimals so it’s unlikely to get it right without calculating, 60.17°, 40.29°, 35.43°
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?
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.
Then they could use decimals so it’s unlikely to get it right without calculating, 60.17°, 40.29°, 35.43°