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Angles of Elevation and Depression: Fly-By Calibration

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This Angles of Elevation and Depression: Fly-By Calibration interactive also includes:

Determine What Trig Function Relates to Specific Sides of a Right Triangle
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Determine the distance between two trees from afar. Pupils use an interactive resource to create two right triangles using trees and a plane. They determine the horizontal legs of each triangle to find the distance between the two trees.

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Concepts

right triangles, trigonometric, trigonometric ratios, trigonometric word problems, trigonometry applications, angle of depression, angle of elevation

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

Conduct a mini-lesson that shows how to determine a measure of an angle in a triangle given either an angle of elevation of angle of depreciation
Lead a discussion on when it is appropriate to include the height of the observer into the final solution

Classroom Considerations

Individuals should know how to solve for a missing length in a right triangle
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Pros

Includes hints on solving the more complex problems
Contains several review problems

Cons

None

Common Core

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