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Solving problems with trigonometry
In this lesson, students apply the concepts of trigonometry to two different situations. In each of these situations, students are making sense of problems before they use trigonometry to solve the problem.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 10
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Pythagoras and trigonometry
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M10M03
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P7) Understanding units of measurement (P10)
- Publisher
- Illustrative Mathematics
- Copyright
- © Open Up Resources/Illustrative Mathematics. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Keywords
- angle tangent ratio cosine ratio sine ratio
- Other terms
- unit circle quadrant
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