Trigonometry Grade 10C

Title of Unit Grade Level

Mathematics 12 days
Subject Time Frame
Teagan Shurtz
Developed By

Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results

Learning Outcomes
What relevant goals will this unit address?
(include all relevant GLO(s) & SLO(s))

Goals: Students can use trigonometry to enrich their mind and expand their thinking, but more practically trigonometry can be used in surveying,
engineering problems, heights of buildings or trees, stock market trends, or maybe business cycles.

General Outcome: Develop spatial sense and proportional reasoning.

SLO: Develop and apply the primary trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent) to solve problems that involve right triangles. [C, CN, PS, R, T, V]

Big Mathematical Ideas

Which big mathematical ideas (e.g. place value, algebraic reasoning, etc.) does this unit address? Consult Charles (2005) and Hurst and Hurrell (2014)

Geometry

Essential Question(s)
What provocative question(s) will foster inquiry into the content? (open-ended questions that stimulate thought and inquiry linked to the content of the
enduring understanding)

● How do you describe angles?

● How do you use angles to model and solve real life problems?
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Knowledge: Skills
What knowledge will student acquire as a result of this unit? This content What skills will students acquire as a result of this unit? List the skills
knowledge may come from the indicators, or might also address prerequisite and/or behaviours that students will be able to exhibit as a result of their
knowledge that students will need for this unit. work in this unit. These will come from the indicators.

Students will know... Students will be able to…

● How to set up triangles ● Draw a set of similar triangles
● The components? of similar triangles ● Set up the tangent ratio
● Pythagorean theorem ● Find the tangent ratio
● Tangent ratio ● Find missing angles of a triangle
● Angle of elevation ● Find missing sides of a triangle
● Angle of depression ● Determine angle of inclination
● Hypotenuse ● Calculate hypotenuse
● Sine and cosine ratios ●
# Lesson Title Lesson Activities

Outcome(s):
Develop and apply the primary trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent) to solve problems that involve right triangles.

Overview: In this first lesson we will be reviewing some of the material learned in grade 9. This will help me to understand
where my students are currently at and what needs to be gone over better in order to succeed in this unit. After which we will go
into the tangent ratio.

Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

● Hand out note packets for the unit.
The Tangent ● access prior knowledge by having students go over setting up triangles, similar triangles, and the pythagorean theorem
1
Ratio ● Show a leaning tower of Pisa photo and ask...If you were to drop an object from the top of the Leaning Tower of
Pisa how far away from the base would it land?
● Discuss the Leaning Tower of Pisa problem including what information they need to begin and what mathematical
properties are capable of solving such a problem.
● Go over triangles and labelling
● Discuss similar triangles
● Pythagorean Theorem and examples

Notes:

Resources: note packet, calculators

Outcome(s):
Develop and apply the primary trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent) to solve problems that involve right triangles.

Overview:

Tangent Ratio Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

2
Con’t ● Define the tangent ratio
● Discuss how to manipulate the formula to solve for unknown sides or angles. (to solve for an angle, we use the tan -1
feature on your calculator (2nd tan)
● Examples on finding the tangent ratio and the angle
● Examples on finding missing sides and angles (solving the triangle)

Notes:
 Outcome(s):
Develop and apply the primary trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent) to solve problems that involve right triangles.

Overview:

Inclination/ Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

3
Depression ● Angle of Inclination/elevation
● Examples for finding the angle of inclination of an object
● Angle of depression
● Examples
●

Notes:
Outcome(s):
Develop and apply the primary trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent) to solve problems that involve right triangles.

Overview:

Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

● Number talk?
● Special triangles
● Irritation numbers
Using the
● Always use exact numbers when you can!!
Tangent Ratio
4 ● 45-45-90 triangles
to Calculate
● 30-60-90 triangles
Lengths
● Finding exact value

Notes: give time for assignment 1

Resources:

5 Using the Outcome(s):

 Develop and apply the primary trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent) to solve problems that involve right triangles.

Overview:

Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

Tangent Ratio
● Using pythagorean theorem to find length
to Calculate
● Review of x=a/b and how we use it to solve tangent ratios
Lengths
● Finding Tan x
● Assignment 1 (lessons 1-2)
●

Notes: give time for assignment 1

Resources:
Outcome(s):
Develop and apply the primary trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent) to solve problems that involve right triangles.

Overview: In this lesson we discuss what would happen if we didn’t have the opposite and adjacent sides of a triangle.

Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

● Mark assignment 1
The Sine and ● SOH CAH TOA (Soh Cah Toa Song (Song A Day #1617) - YouTube)
6
Cosine Ratios ● Examples with angles to the nearest degree
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Notes:

Resources:

7 The Sine and Outcome(s):

Cosine Ratios Develop and apply the primary trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent) to solve problems that involve right triangles.
 Overview: In this lesson we discuss what would happen if we didn’t have the opposite and adjacent sides of a triangle.

Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

● Triangle angle sum theorem- the sum of all the angles equals 180
● Special triangles practice
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Notes:

Resources:
Outcome(s):
Develop and apply the primary trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent) to solve problems that involve right triangles.

Overview: Students will get to apply the lessons taught thus far in a game with whiteboards. Or if I feel students have caught on
quickly, a quiz will be done this day.

Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

● Each student has a white board.
Game day
● A row of students goes up to the main whiteboards.
8 (whiteboard)/
● The students at the board must get three questions correct before they can sit down and another student goes up to the
Quiz day?
board
● Students must keep track of their own points
● If we have a quiz, students will get the first 20 minutes to write the quiz and then the last 25 minutes for the whiteboard
game.

Notes:

Resources: powerpoint for game, quiz, whiteboards, computers?

9 Applying the Outcome(s):

Trigonometric Develop and apply the primary trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent) to solve problems that involve right triangles.
Ratios
 Overview:

Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

● Start of with some warm up examples
● Dive a little deeper by solving a regular decagon
● Have students work on their Lesson 5 assignment of using pythagorean theorem and the appropriate trig ratio for solving
missing sides and angles

Notes:

Resources: powerpoint, assignment

10 Outcome(s):
Develop and apply the primary trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent) to solve problems that involve right triangles.
Solving
Problems Overview:
involving more
than one right Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:
triangle ● Mark assignment
● Warm up from lessons prior
● Look for a common side/angle that links the triangles.
● Information given to help you calculate one triangle will give you information for the other triangle
● Examples
● Assignment for lesson 6

Notes:

Resources:, powerpoint,
 Outcome(s):
Develop and apply the primary trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent) to solve problems that involve right triangles.

Overview:

Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

10 Review Day
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Notes:

Resources: Kahoot? Review Worksheet?

Outcome(s): Develop and apply the primary trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent) to solve problems that involve right
triangles.

Overview:
11 Exam Day
Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:
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Notes:

Resources:

12 Go over Exam Outcome(s): Develop and apply the primary trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent) to solve problems that involve right
Day/ Any triangles.
Questions from
the exam

Overview:

Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

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Notes:

Resources: