Solving Right Triangles

This packet is designed to help you teach your students how to solve right triangles using trigonometry.  That includes use of the basic functions, sine, cosine and tangent, but also the inverse functions, arcsin, arccos, arctan.

Solving right triangles using trigonometry is very tricky for students new to the subject.  With this packet you’ll receive all you need to have the ground work established.  Then, you can focus on quality questioning and good support for your students.  Here’s what you get:

1. Quality reference text for student reference and teacher refresher
2. A quality homework assignment with several problems to solve as well as a PowerPoint that you can use to review the assignment with students
3. A quality, animated PowerPoint that you can use to introduce students to the topic.
4. Three videos aligned to the questions on the homework assignment and the Google docs quiz.