I love it when my students think for themselves.
When learning the law of sines and law of cosines — and when it’s appropriate to use one or the other — our textbook gives pretty prescriptive directions. For example, when you are given SSA (a side, a side, and an angle opposite one of those given [...]
April 15, 2008
Thinking!
April 15, 2008
Reorganizing Trigonometry
In my trigonometry classes, I decided to deviate from the textbook ordering of concepts. The other teacher, thankfully, was on board. (And next year, I want to tweak things even more.)
Our textbook presentation of trig starts out with reviewing right triangles, SOH CAH TOA, and in the same section, introduces the reciprocal trig functions (csc, [...]