Trigonometry Grade 20-2

Title of Unit Grade Level

Mathematics 8 days
Subject Time Frame
Teagan Shurtz
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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.

SLO: Solve problems that involve the cosine law and the sine law, excluding the ambiguous case. [CN, PS, R]

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 can you solve triangles that are not right triangles?
●

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…

● Sine law ● Solve triangles with the sine ratio
● Cosine law ● Solve triangles that do not have a complete sine ratio
● formulas ● Solve triangles with the cosine law
● Solve word problems involving sine and cosine law
# Lesson Title Lesson Activities

Outcome(s):
Solve problems that involve the cosine law and the sine law, excluding the ambiguous case. [CN, PS, R]

Overview:

Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

Introduction
● Introduction
1
● Recall math 10 when we used trig and right triangles
● Go over three primary trig ratios
● Example
● Discovery activity?

Notes:

Resources: note packet, calculators

Outcome(s):
Solve problems that involve the cosine law and the sine law, excluding the ambiguous case. [CN, PS, R]

Overview:

Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

● The sine law
2 Sine Law ● Show the sine law in every triangle ABC…
● Examples
● Assignment 1

Notes:

Resources: note packet, calculators

3 Cosine Law Outcome(s):

Solve problems that involve the cosine law and the sine law, excluding the ambiguous case. [CN, PS, R]
 Overview:

Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

● Use sine law when we want to find an unknown side or angle as long as we have a complete sine ratio (what does this
mean?
● What happens if we don’t have a complete sine ratio? Can we still solve the triangle?
● Go over the 3 formulas
● Examples
● Practice questions

Notes:

Resources: note packet, calculators

Outcome(s):
Solve problems that involve the cosine law and the sine law, excluding the ambiguous case. [CN, PS, R]

Overview:

4 Cosine Law Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

● More Practice Questions
● Assignment 2

Notes:

Resources: note packet, calculators

5 Outcome(s):
Game day Solve problems that involve the cosine law and the sine law, excluding the ambiguous case. [CN, PS, R]
(whiteboard)

Overview:

Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

● Make teams and do a whiteboard game

Notes:
 Resources: note packet, calculators

Outcome(s):
Solve problems that involve the cosine law and the sine law, excluding the ambiguous case. [CN, PS, R]

Overview:

Word rRoblems Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

6 involving sine ● Use and apply knowledge of triangles to solve word problems.
and cosine law ● Examples
● Practice question
● Assignment 3

Notes:

Resources: note packet, calculators

Outcome(s):
Solve problems that involve the cosine law and the sine law, excluding the ambiguous case. [CN, PS, R]

Overview:
Review
Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:
7
● Any questions that students have we can go over
● We will do some practice questions very similar to what would be on the exam

Notes:

Resources: note packet, calculators

8 Outcome(s):
Exam Day Solve problems that involve the cosine law and the sine law, excluding the ambiguous case. [CN, PS, R]

Overview:

Teaching and/or Learning Strategies:

 ● Students will get the whole class to do their exam
● if time is left, we can answer questions or students can read.

Notes:

Resources: exam, calculators