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Trigonometric function

From the AMSI ‘The Improving Mathematics Education in Schools (TIMES)' project. This module is for teachers who wish to consolidate their content knowledge on the topic trigonometric functions. There are sections on the content knowledge, exercises and examples on how to present and explain the concepts to students.

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Year level(s)	Year 10
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Content knowledge, Teaching resource
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Explicit teaching
Keywords	angles, angle, tangent, cosine, sine, unit circle, quadrant, coordinate plane
Curriculum alignment
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	AMSI
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