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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.
- 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
- AMSI
- Copyright
- © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0.
- Keywords
- angle tangent ratio cosine ratio sine ratio
- Other terms
- coordinate plane unit circle quadrant
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