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One problem, solved five different ways
I came across a math problem in a session with a student that I realized can be solved with a variety of different techniques. It is often useful as a tutor to have many different ways to solve the same problem on hand, as students may respond to the different techniques in various ways. The original problem was:
Hacking the unit circle
The unit circle is a handy tool that can help students learn the trigonometric values, sine, cosine, and tangent, of certain angles (30°, 45°, and their multiples) that the math “Powers-That-Be” have determined to be important. Unfortunately, for a lot of students, the unit circle can feel like tedious rote memorization with unfamiliar numbers ...
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