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Trigonometry
From the AMSI ‘Supporting Australian Mathematics Project’, this resource gives detailed explanations for teachers and students of the curriculum content with worked examples and assessment questions. This resource focuses on the origins of trigonometrical ratios.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 9
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Pythagoras and trigonometry
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Proportional thinking (P7) Understanding geometric properties (P7) Understanding units of measurement (P10)
- Publisher
- AMSI
- Copyright
- © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0.
- Keywords
- Pythagoras's theorem tangent ratio cosine ratio sine ratio angle
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