Part I
Getting Started with Trigonometry
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In this part…
- Become acquainted with angle measures and how they relate to trig functions.
- Discover formulas that provide lengths of segments, midpoints, and slopes of lines.
- Become familiar with circles and the relationships between radii, diameters, centers, and arcs.
- Relate infinitely many angle measures to just one reference angle.
- Find a simple conversion method for changing from degrees to radians and vice versa.
- Observe the properties of special right triangles, and use the Pythagorean theorem to formulate the relationships between the sides of these right triangles.
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