Mathematics / Year 10 / Measurement and Geometry / Pythagoras and trigonometry

Curriculum content descriptions

Use the unit circle to define trigonometric functions, and graph them with and without the use of digital technologies (ACMMG274)

Elaborations
  • establishing the symmetrical properties of trigonometric functions
  • investigating angles of any magnitude
  • understanding that trigonometric functions are periodic and that this can be used to describe motion
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Unit circles,  Periodic functions

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