Unit Plan is here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oR823o7436OMqfgYjDfYk3YF_TnZSiv7?usp=sharing
A few notes:
During class today, conversations with Carson led me to revised (again) the structure of my lesson plan. This is a template I've developed myself, but I am feeling much happier with it now.
When I teach this unit, I intend to take 3 days to go through the unit circle. This is as-per the recommendation of Michelle Kovesi, the teacher who developed the worksheet I will be going through. It offers a radical new way to teach trigonometric functions and has many advantages to the methods generally offered in textbooks. In general, many necessary qualities of trig functions can be derived by the students. In particular:
The maximum and minimum value of these functions are 1 and -1, respectively
Which quadrant one would expect to find positive or negative values for these functions
How many angles on the unit circle yield some value for sine or cosine
Sin^2(A) + Cos^2(A) = 1 (!!!!!!!!)
The value of Sine and Cosine at 0deg, 90deg, 180deg, and 270deg.
If this sounds too good to be true, I recommend you look at the pdf file in my unit plan titled: "BCMAT Trigonometry Presentation".
I have the support of my SA to implement this method - they are as excited as I am.
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