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Introduction to trigonometry
These lesson plans guide the teacher on how to introduce trigonometry to students through an investigation of similar triangles.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 9
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Pythagoras and trigonometry
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Proportional thinking (P7) Understanding geometric properties (P7) Understanding units of measurement (P10)
- Publisher
- BetterLesson
- Copyright
- © Beth Menzie. Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0.
- Keywords
- Pythagoras's theorem tangent ratio cosine ratio sine ratio angle
- File type
- File size
- 0.8 MB
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