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Height and distance
This resource demonstrates the meaning of angles of elevation and depression. There are examples and annotated questions for students to practise using trigonometry.
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| Year level(s) | Year 10 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Student task |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching |
| Keywords | Angle, Length, Height, Tangent, Cosine, Sine, Trigonometry, Depression, Elevation |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking |
| Strand and focus | Space |
| Topics | Pythagoras and trigonometry |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M10M03
Solve practical problems applying Pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry of right-angled triangles, including problems involving direction and angles of elevation and depression |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P7)
Understanding units of measurement (P10) |
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| Organisation | GeoGebra |
| Copyright | © 2022 GeoGebra. Free-for-education material. |
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