A problem about polar coordinates of $\mathbb{R}^2$

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In Bott-Tu's book, differential forms in Algebraic Topology, they used the angle function $\theta$ in $\mathbb{R}^2-\{0\}$, and its differential $d\theta$, how to understand them, since $\theta$ is not continuous in $\mathbb{R}^2-\{0\}$.