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The whole year, readable in five minutes.

Pick a subject and a grade. You will see every module, what your child can do at the end of it, and the lessons inside, taken from the same plan our mentors teach from.

  • 8 modules a year
  • A practice class after every lesson
  • Two assessments
  • Recordings of every live class

1Subject

Trigonometry · Grades 9–12

Grades 9–12. Live classes of four, eight a month.

modules
8modules
lessons
48lessons
months
12months
  1. 01

    Angles and Right Triangles

    Work in degrees and radians, and use sine, cosine and tangent in a right triangle.

    • Angles, degrees and radians
    • The right triangle and its ratios
    • Sine, cosine and tangent
    • Finding an unknown side
    2 more lessons
    • Finding an unknown angle
    • Solving a right triangle completely

    6 practice classes

  2. 02

    Standard Angles and the Unit Circle

    Recall the exact values, and find ratios of any angle from the unit circle.

    • Exact values of the standard angles
    • The unit circle
    • Trigonometric ratios of any angle
    • Signs in the four quadrants
    2 more lessons
    • Reference angles
    • Coterminal and negative angles

    5 practice classes · An assessment

  3. 03

    Graphs of Trigonometric Functions

    Sketch and transform the sine, cosine and tangent graphs.

    • The sine graph
    • The cosine graph
    • The tangent graph
    • Amplitude and period
    2 more lessons
    • Phase shift and vertical shift
    • Modelling anything that repeats

    6 practice classes

  4. 04

    Identities

    Prove a trigonometric identity rather than only recognising one.

    • The Pythagorean identities
    • Reciprocal and quotient identities
    • Proving an identity
    • Simplifying a trigonometric expression
    2 more lessons
    • Which identity to reach for, and when
    • Lesson 24

    5 practice classes · An assessment

  5. 05

    Compound and Multiple Angles

    Apply the compound, double and half angle formulae.

    • Sum and difference formulae
    • Double angle formulae
    • Half angle formulae
    • Product-to-sum and sum-to-product
    2 more lessons
    • Combining a sine and a cosine into one ratio
    • Using the formulae in a proof

    6 practice classes

  6. 06

    Trigonometric Equations

    Solve trigonometric equations, including those needing an identity first.

    • Solving a basic equation
    • Equations with multiple angles
    • Equations that need an identity first
    • Solutions within a given interval
    2 more lessons
    • General solutions
    • Equations that look harder than they are

    5 practice classes · An assessment

  7. 07

    Triangles and Applications

    Use the sine and cosine rules to solve any triangle, and find its area.

    • The sine rule
    • The cosine rule
    • Area of a triangle
    • The ambiguous case
    2 more lessons
    • Heights and distances
    • Bearings and navigation

    6 practice classes

  8. 08

    Inverse Functions and Review

    Use the inverse trigonometric functions, with their domains and ranges.

    • The inverse trigonometric functions
    • Their domains and ranges
    • Solving with inverse functions
    • Where trigonometry shows up in other subjects
    2 more lessons
    • Exam problems and the common traps
    • Lesson 48

    5 practice classes · An assessment

Practice classes go over the lesson before them: worked problems, revision and doubts. Assessments sit at the midpoint and the end of the year.

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