Students are guided to discover the Sine, Cosine and Tangent ratios of right-angled triangles. As learning progresses they learn how to calculate a missing angle and length in right-angled triangles.
This topic takes place in Year 11 Term 3 and follows on from Pythagoras’ Theorem.
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