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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.
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| Year level(s) | Year 10 |
|---|---|
| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Content knowledge |
| 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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