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Trigonometry

Teacher guide Trigonometry

TLF ID M013360

This is a website designed for both teachers and students, which addresses content on trigonometry from the Australian Curriculum for year 9 students. It contains material on working with the similarity of right-angled triangles, the three basic trigonometric ratios, and solving problems with trigonometry. There are pages for both teachers and students. The student pages contain interactive questions for students to check their progress in the topic.

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Educational value
  • This resource is valuable for both teachers and students for the year 9 Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. It is particularly relevant for the content description about investigating trigonometric ratios in right-angled triangles. Students are introduced to terms such as hypotenuse, adjacent, opposite and corresponding sides. It also support students in how to apply trigonometry to solve problems with right-angled triangles.
  • The resource may be useful in helping students achieve that element of the year 9 achievement standards that refers to students explaining similarity in triangles and using trigonometry to find the unknown sides of right-angled triangles.
Year level

9

Topics Trigonometric ratios Distance Ratios Right angled triangles Pythagoras´ theorem Dilation Similarity (Geometry) Generalisation
Learning area
  • Mathematics

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Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Name: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
  • Organization: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
  • Description: Creator
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.amsi.org.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organization: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organization: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
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  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Online
  • Interactive
  • Text
Rights
  • © 2013 Education Services Australia Ltd, unless otherwise indicated. This material may be copied, distributed and adapted free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes, provided all copyright notices and acknowledgements are retained.