Classify an angle

A long pair of sides does not make a bigger angle - only how far the corner opens counts. The wrong answers on this skill are built out of that, not out of random numbers, so it is worth naming out loud before your child meets it under time pressure.

Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. Compare the angle with a right angle of 90° and with a straight line of 180°, and see which side of each it falls.

The skill map draws the line here: Excludes calculating an unknown angle. A question past that line is testing a different named maths skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.

The geometry strand holds 15 skills that are tested together, and the pages next to classify an angle are compose coordinate transformations, identify a cube net and identify a shape property. Each has its own exercise and its own link, and none of them needs an account.

Use Angle Namer, embedded on this page. It is the exercise the skill map attaches to classify an angle, it runs in the browser with no account to make, nothing is scored, and nothing a child does here is recorded or sent anywhere. It also has its own link, so you can send it to a child without sending them anywhere else first.