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Cookie Preferences. How can we help you? Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong. Please Try Later. Sign In. How we use LinkedIn. The clock now displays the answer to the initial problem. Clocks have always been a useful way to teach about angles.

This clock has angle measurements built in. First set the mode to angles, to get the control set. In angles mode you will now see a protractor button click it to toggle the display of the protractor. Next is the auto toggle button, click to turn it on and you will notice the protractor lines up automatically to measure the angle. Move the clock hands and the protractor will follow. Below the protractor button is a slider use this to change the size of the protractor.

When measuring angles the large clock hands can be made thin for better accuracy by clicking thin. To display the angle click Ang , and click Arc to display the angle arc. When dragging the minute hand it currently snaps to the nearest minute, turn this feature off by clicking snap.

Finally the type of angle can be changed using the select control. So you can choose the angle between the hour hand and minute hand, both clockwise and anti-clockwise. Or measure the angle of the second hand from 12 o'clock. Select fraction on the mode control to use the clock to teach fractions. Time statements such as 'a quarter past', 'half past' and 'a quarter to' obviously are linked to fraction.

In the fraction mode a circle sector is painted from 12 o'clock to the minute hand position. The simplified fraction is the same fraction cancelled down when possible. The simple button toggles removal of the hour and second hands to give a simplified view.