Saturday, September 21, 2013

Biggest Trig Warmup Ever

This looks so fun! What a way to get kids to think about the composition and decomposition of the "sweet 16" triangles on a unit circle. I haven't found many get-up-and-move-around activities that feel appropriate to high schoolers, so I love this. The materials prep isn't even that bad because you only need the two triangles.

Extra challenge for when you have more students in the class: throw in the angles an increments of 15degrees that aren't already part of the key unit circle angles. Really this is a physical variation on the question of how many angles you can build from just from a set of drafting triangles.

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