In this article, we discuss funky protractor tasks, which we designed to provide opportunities for students to reason about protractors and angle measure. We address how we have implemented these tasks, as well as how students have engaged with them.

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We designed tasks involving unconventional tools to stimulate and reveal students' ways of reasoning about angle measure.

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© 2020 by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc.
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4
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Received:
01 Jul 2019
Accepted:
17 Nov 2019
Print Publication Date:
01 Mar 2020
Online Publication Date:
Mar 2020
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