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Rediscovering Trigonometry

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Course Outline

Cooperative Group Activities

        Unit 1: The Geometry of the Circle
            Activity 1: Measures of Central Angles
            Activity 2: Characterizations of the Circle - Rectangular and Polar Coordinates
            Activity 3: Lengths of Arcs and Areas of Sectors
            Activity 4: Special Symmetries of Circles

        Unit 2: The Sine and Cosine Functions
            Activity 1: The Wrapping Function
            Activity 2: Sine and Cosine Ratios in Right Triangles
            Activity 3: The Law of Cosines
                            Geometer's Sketchpad Sketch     coslaw.gsp
            Activity 4: Graphs of the Sine and Cosine Functions
            Activity 5: Properties of the Sine and Cosine Graphs
            Activity 6: Complements and Supplements
            Activity 7: The Law of Sines
                            Geometer's Sketchpad Sketch    
sinlaw.gsp

 


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