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March 4, 2013 by David Wees

Making a map of angles

Malke Rosenfeld shares another example of her daughter’s mathematical thinking, this time when her daughter finds a protractor and decides to use it to make a map of some angles. Read more about her daughter’s mathematical thinking on her blog.

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Email me at davidwees [at] gmail [dot] com if you would like an example of student work to appear on this site. Please indicate if you would like your contribution to be completely anonymous, or if you have some preferred contact information we can include in your post.

The work you share should be an example of student thinking in math. Ideally, it is work a student has done that you have not taught them explicitly how to do, but any example of original thinking from a student can be shared here. Note that the idea or technique a student uses does not itself have to be completely original, just new to the student.

We may also use this as a place to share examples of investigations students can do in math, and if you would like to share those as well, please feel free to do so.

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