This resource was reviewed using the Curriki Review rubric and received an overall Curriki Review System rating of 3.00, as of 2008-12-04.
Component Ratings:
Technical Completeness: 3
Content Accuracy: 3
Appropriate Pedagogy: 3
Reviewer Comments:
This is a collection of lesson plans and worksheets addressing various algebra through pre-calc topics. The lesson plans are complete and interesting, but it should be noted that the Area of a Triangle lesson requires the Geometer’s Sketchpad and the Trigonometry Worksheet does not contain the answers.
Information - Trigonometry
Lesson Plan
Lesson Plans and Creative Lessons for Trigonometry Classroom.
This lesson walks students through a classic optimization problem involving building the maximum area of a triangle, expressed in terms of an angle. The lesson uses a worksheet in The Geometers Sketchpad.
This activity has students discover how small changes in the measurements of a right triangle can influence the whole triangle. Students track data and analyze changes in order to look for patterns. Students then use these patterns to develop a function that describes how the changes relate to one another.
An interesting problem that has students find the area of a particular section of a circle that resembles the pupil of a snake eye. The result is rather surprising, because the area does not involve pi.
This trigonometry worksheet covers a variety of topics on unit circle trigonometry. Some problems are asked as quantitative comparisons, and others combine trigonometric concepts with exponents and logs.