While I never expected that I'd need to order a protractor as a tool for proofreading work, I'm pleased to see that it's a standard office supply catalog item, so all I had to do was send off an email with the item number.
More precisely, they have me proofreading math, including basic geometry. Part of that includes "check art for sense." This means that if vertex R' is labeled as T', and vice versa, I mark that. If the drawing illustrating an angle bisector looks out of true, I mark that.
If a reading comprehension passage on Victorian parlor games has the date of Queen Victoria's accession wrong, I mark that. [These are all from today, as it happens.]
I also give them rather more science--and other--fact-checking than they strictly demand. They like it.
A protractor was standard equipment in children's school supply kits all through my elementary years. I don't recall ever using one. Even in high school geometry, we never drew angles, only wrote proofs.
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Proofreading angles
If a reading comprehension passage on Victorian parlor games has the date of Queen Victoria's accession wrong, I mark that. [These are all from today, as it happens.]
I also give them rather more science--and other--fact-checking than they strictly demand. They like it.
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Re: Proofreading angles
A protractor was standard equipment in children's school supply kits all through my elementary years. I don't recall ever using one. Even in high school geometry, we never drew angles, only wrote proofs.