Shapes: in your daily life do you ever use the following skills or information:?

Question

Please give examples.
Even only an example of one of these is useful.
1. Describing 2D and 3D shapes.
2. Identify reflective reflective symmetry in patterns.
3. The classification of quadrilaterals.
4.. The names of different triangles.
5. Use a compass.
6. Use angles
7. Draw on your knowledge of polygons and their properties.
8. Read and plot co-ordinates.
9. Make or draw shapes.
10. Estimate angles

Please state your age and profession.

Many thanks!

Answer 1

I do those things in maths, but I have no choice!!!!!!! I sometimes draw shapes if I get bored in lessons, cos then you make all the shapes crossover, and colour it all in random colours, its soo cool, and really passes time!

Age: 14 Profession: GCSE Student Mission: Fall asleep in maths without anyone noticing! (I hav perfected open eye dreaming!)

Answer 2

1) When describing what kind of box the tea you want comes in.
2) When you study butterfly's
3) When you want to describe to your landscape gardener what shape you want your garden.
4) Same as 3. Also when you are trying to build something in a triangle shape (like a dog kennel)
5) Like a drawing one? When you try to draw a smiley face. When your a primary teacher (like me)
6) When making things out of wood. When playing pool. Driving
7) For drawing the design to give to your landscape gardener.
8) When you have to use a map and plan a journey
9) When you are a teacher. When you are a builder. When you are a designer.
10) When you are driving. Building. Playing Pool etc

Answer 3

1. Only when I complain about how 3D Pixar stuff isn't "animation", the old school 2D kind
2. For my Art History class I had to tell if a painting was "symmetrical"
4. Only in math class.
5. When I pretend to be a pirate.
6. When measuring things like yards and stuff.
9. I like drawing "3D" circles. Lol.

Answer 4

I think I use pretty much all these at some point in everyday. I'm and Artist and a Writer, and a Household Manager. Living with an entire family in two rooms can be quite a study in geometry and spatial relationships, as well as the symetry of "people patterns."

Answer 5

Those who follow the teachings Jesus of the Holy Bible will not be disappointed on the Day of Judgment. The human sacrifice of the death of Jesus on the cross takes away all sins of those who believe in him. "at the proper time time Christ died for us" which is a not failure but a success in God's eyes. It was God's plan that Jesus die on the cross, it was no mistake. Sin could not keep Jesus in the grave and three (3) days later, Jesus rose from the grave and will return to judge the world. Jesus will enter Jerusalem in the future and will defeat the anti-christ. Jesus is not a pedophile, a person who molest younger children, nor a lier, Jesus always told the truth and is The Truth. "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." that name is Jesus Christ.

Answer 6

Sadly yes I do! Most of the above!! I am a teacher. It is one of the things that totally frustrates me though, so much time is wasted on this kinda stuff when more important skills could be learned.

I often think about opening a 'no $hit school'

Well I'm not teaching at the moment...too frustrating!

Oh and I'm 47.

Answer 7

Not really, the closest is when I share out a pie. I always take it as a clock face (60 minutes in total) so if there are five of us we all get 12 minutes each. - you could convert this idea into degrees of a circle.

Age 43 Economic Engineer (house Mum)

Answer 8

5) I use daily while driving.
6) Very useful when calculating area of my yard!
8) Occasionaly, when charting progress of some items.

Age 28 profession not relevant

Answer 9

I'm a single mum and suppose i use all or most of these everyday, my children are aged 15,8,7and 6.

Answer 10

my friend is an engineer and im pretty sure they use 6,7,8,9,10 all the time. he is 40.

i think what you use depends on your job but not many jobs use use very many of them... i dont think any jobs use 1,2,3,4 except for a teacher...