The biggest challenge for me at first was finding the values in radians on the unit circle, that is the major key to being able to find values and answers. I used the conversion to get to degrees to find where points are. But after a while I started to remember where they were by their radian form.This activity helped me see how the Cartesian plane and the unit circle are linked. When you are finding a angle on the Circle you are also finding it on the plane. During the assessment I handled not having help from the teacher by, knowing the values on the circle and then also knowing that the radius of the circle is 1 unit. It was also useful knowing the Rise/run equals Sin/cos. To finish the problem without the teacher it was helpful knowing soh cah toa, along with csc, sec and cot. The biggest takeaway I got from this is how they are linked and how you get the same answer from using the plane or the circle.
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February 2016
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