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#1 2014-07-16 16:00:19

David
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Learning Trigonometry

Hi everyone,
What's the best way to learn trigonometry? The basics like sine, cosine and tangent?

I want tips and stuff and how you learnt it.


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#2 2014-07-16 16:31:17

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

Hi;

Start with a right triangle.


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#3 2014-07-16 23:26:35

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#4 2014-07-16 23:48:29

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

Is this going to be hard? Lol...


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#5 2014-07-16 23:53:12

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

How could it be? You can come in here and ask questions on any part you do not understand.


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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#6 2014-07-16 23:56:07

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

Ok, good. That's what I need.


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#7 2014-07-16 23:58:29

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

Well, get started.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#8 2014-07-17 00:16:09

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

chooipian wrote:

Is this going to be hard? Lol...

It is not going to be hard unless you try to prove the stupid and complicated trig identities.

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#9 2014-07-17 00:35:12

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Explain radians.


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#10 2014-07-17 00:38:39

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Re: Learning Trigonometry


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#11 2014-07-17 00:48:45

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

Yes. But I don't understand 1 radian?


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#12 2014-07-17 00:48:53

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

Precalculus by Sullivan explains everything very well.

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#13 2014-07-17 00:51:41

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

But I shouldn't get in there yet?
Precalculus - Concepts throughout functions a unit circle approach to trigonometry.


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#14 2014-07-17 00:53:29

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

I noticed that I learn better if I don't follow the chapters.


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#15 2014-07-17 00:54:11

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

1 radian = 180 / π  degrees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radian

Look at the animation, shows what 1 radian is.


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#16 2014-07-17 01:02:44

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

chooipian wrote:

But I shouldn't get in there yet?
Precalculus - Concepts throughout functions a unit circle approach to trigonometry.

If you are done with algebra (from Sullivan's other book), you can go to Precalculus by Sullivan.

You kind of have to go through the chapters mostly in order.

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#17 2014-07-17 01:07:03

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

I'm actually going here and there. My school have timss and I got selected. So I got to learn a lot of stuff.

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#18 2014-07-17 01:27:34

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

radian-definition.gif

A radian cuts off an arc length that is equal to the radius of the circle.


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#19 2014-07-17 01:58:55

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

I got it. Thanks.


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#20 2014-07-17 02:00:59

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

We are more familiar with degrees but math likes radians.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#21 2014-07-17 02:03:37

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

Maybe try TIMSS next year? Learning this here and there won't help a lot.

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#22 2014-07-17 02:10:48

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

I got selected. My school is teaching me, but the way they teach is odd. They will skip here and there.


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#23 2014-07-17 02:16:00

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

bobbym wrote:

We are more familiar with degrees but math likes radians.

Radians is pure mathematics? I'm learning on how to convert degrees to minute. Before I go, do we necessarily need a calculator for trigonometry?


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#24 2014-07-17 02:19:47

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

Not necessarily, but in many problems you do.

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#25 2014-07-17 02:25:36

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Re: Learning Trigonometry

I just don't like calculators.


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