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Introductory trigonometry
This module from the AMSI 'The Improving Mathematics Education in Schools (TIMES) project' is for teachers who wish to consolidate their content knowledge on the topic of trigonometry. There are sections that provide history and context for the topic, as well as exercises and examples of how to present and explain the concepts to students.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 9 Year 10
- Purpose
- Planning Curriculum
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Pythagoras and trigonometry
- Audience
- Teachers School leaders
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P7) Proportional thinking (P7) Understanding units of measurement (P10)
- Publisher
- AMSI
- Copyright
- © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0.
- Keywords
- sine ratio cosine ratio tangent ratio
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