Angles by folding paper

[lida]

How do you guys find angles with folding a piece of paper? it just doesn't make sense to me to compare angles with paper!!!!
thanks 🙂

 

[joonkimdds]

I wonder how ppl fold their paper.
what i do is put the paper on the screen.
Since screen has lights coming out, u can see the angles through ur paper.
draw the first one, shift ur paper to the next, draw on the angle that u just drew.
Repeat them for all 4, and now u have the answer 🙂

 

[Newhere]

I didnt have traceable paper at the test center. that would be the only way to do your method.

 

[joonkimdds]

I didnt have traceable paper at the test center. that would be the only way to do your method.

u didn't have traceable paper?? then what kind of paper did u have?

 

[lida]

I wonder how ppl fold their paper.
what i do is put the paper on the screen.
Since screen has lights coming out, u can see the angles through ur paper.
draw the first one, shift ur paper to the next, draw on the angle that u just drew.
Repeat them for all 4, and now u have the answer 🙂

thank you 🙂

 

[onetoothleft]

How do you guys find angles with folding a piece of paper? it just doesn't make sense to me to compare angles with paper!!!!
thanks 🙂

I fold the paper in half diagonally to make a 45 degree angle. Then I use this to compare angles be putting it up to the screen.

The reason why this worked for me:

Lets say there are two angles that are 50 and 51 degrees. Having a 45 degree paper to compare will make it like comparing 5 and 6 degree angles instead, which would be easier to see than 50 and 51. Use the 90 degree edge for obtuse angles.

It is not a sure-fire method, but it does help a bit. Remember that on the PAT you dont have that much time, so this is just a quick tool that would only take a second to use, as opposed to writing on a piece of paper on the screen.

 

[syn_apse]

has anybody ever gotten in trouble using this method? i only have time to take the test once and i can't afford to have my scores invalidated because some prometric employee thought this was cheating!

 

[dat_student]

has anybody ever gotten in trouble using this method? i only have time to take the test once and i can't afford to have my scores invalidated because some prometric employee thought this was cheating!

ask them beforehand

 

[Bonkers29]

I fold the paper in half diagonally to make a 45 degree angle. Then I use this to compare angles be putting it up to the screen.

The reason why this worked for me:

Lets say there are two angles that are 50 and 51 degrees. Having a 45 degree paper to compare will make it like comparing 5 and 6 degree angles instead, which would be easier to see than 50 and 51. Use the 90 degree edge for obtuse angles.

It is not a sure-fire method, but it does help a bit. Remember that on the PAT you dont have that much time, so this is just a quick tool that would only take a second to use, as opposed to writing on a piece of paper on the screen.

hehe, for some reason this method is better for me than the actual foldable ruler thing that everyone else uses because I dont seem to be able to fold two pieces of paper into two different angles for every single angel ranking question but this comparing the questionable angles to 45 or 90 degrees I can do! thanks!