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The great Adirondack surveyor
Seeing mathematics in a ’real-world’ context helps students understand the relevance of the mathematics they are learning. This is a fascinating history of the application of trigonometry to surveying. There are interactive demonstrations of the techniques used.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 10
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Pythagoras and trigonometry
- Audience
- Teachers
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M10M03
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P7) Understanding units of measurement (P10)
- Publisher
- GeoGebra
- Copyright
- © 2022 GeoGebra. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- angle length tangent ratio cosine ratio sine ratio trigonometric ratios angle of depression angle of elevation
- Other terms
- GeoGebra
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