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Trigonometry (5 lessons)
In this sequence of 5 lessons, students learn to use sine, cosine, and tangent, and their inverse functions, to find unknown sides and angles in right-angled triangles.
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| Year level(s) | Year 9 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching, Questioning, Worked examples, Mathematics investigation |
| Keywords | summative assessment, right-angled triangles, solve problems, apply trigonometric ratios |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Measurement, Space |
| Topics | Pythagoras and trigonometry |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M9SP01
Recognise the constancy of the sine, cosine and tangent ratios for a given angle in right-angled triangles using properties of similarity
AC9M9M03
Solve spatial problems, applying angle properties, scale, similarity, Pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry in right-angled triangles |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P7)
Understanding units of measurement (P10) Proportional thinking (P7) |
Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Victoria State Government Department of Education |
| Copyright | © State Government of Victoria. Creative Commons BY 4.0. |
