Online Workshop: Trigonometry for All
Tue, Mar 19
|6 sessions via zoom
In this workshop, Michael Waski explains how to introduce the concepts of trigonometry to students of all ages, and expands into more advanced work for older students, or interested younger students.
Time & Location
Mar 19, 2024, 7:00 PM EDT – Apr 04, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
6 sessions via zoom
About the event
Workshop sessions will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays for 3 weeks from 7:00 PM EDT - 8:00 PM EDT starting June 21st, 2022.
Details:
2024 Dates - March 19, 21, 26, 28, and April 2, 4
Time - Live workshop will begin at 7:00 EDT-US and last 1 hour (Sessions will be recorded and emailed to participants)
Cost - $195 per attendee
Course Syllabus:Â
Session 1: Similar Triangles: Laying the GroundWork
Ratio and Proportion
Similarity
Internal and External Ratios
Finding Unknowns in Similar Triangles
Three Special Cases of Similar Triangles
Session 2: Discovering Trigonometry through the History of Astronomy
How big is the Earth?
How far away is the moon?
How far away is the sun?
How far away are the stars? (Time permitting)
Session 3: Right-Angled Trigonometry
Discovering Tangent (or any function)
Defining Sine, Cosine, and Tangent
Defining Secant, Cosecant, and Cotangent
Etymology
Inverses
Applying Trigonometry in Applications
Session 4: Trigonometry with Non-Right Triangles
Discovering the Law of Sines
Discovering the Law of Cosines
Brahmagupta’s Theorem (Time Permitting)
Session 5: The Unit Circle
Radian Measure
Special triangles
Coordinates of the Unit Circle
Evaluating Trigonometric
Session 6: Analytic Trigonometry
Trigonometric Identities
Graphing Trigonometric Functions
This online workshop will be an introduction to lessons in Later Algebra. These correspond with Teaching Algebra to the Adolescent, Volume 2: A Montessori Approach. Session topics include sequences, complex numbers, exponential and logarithmic activities.