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Minimalist approaches to teaching trigonometry

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posted on 2024-01-26, 14:07 authored by Colin FosterColin Foster

Is our task to teach ‘sin, cos and tan’, or is our task to enable students to be able to solve right-angled triangles efficiently, given any possible combination of information?

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School

  • Science

Department

  • Mathematics Education Centre

Published in

Mathematics in School

Volume

53

Issue

2

Pages

20 - 24

Publisher

The Mathematical Association

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© The Mathematical Association

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Reproduced with the permission of the publisher.

Publication date

2024-03-01

Copyright date

2024

ISSN

0305-7259

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Colin Foster. Deposit date: 26 January 2024

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