Obtuse angle on the left (see upside down “T” figure) and perpendicular lines (right angle) on the right.
Geometry Application
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Obtuse angle on the left (see upside down “T” figure) and perpendicular lines (right angle) on the right.
Making math meaningful and maybe interesting is a challenge. The photo above refers to a real life application for triangles and trigonometry (see photo below) that is found in a news story about Russian jets and a US destroyer. The jet was flying at an altitude of 100 yards and within 200 yards of the destroyer. TopicsĀ that could be addressed:
A relevant, real life application is a method to make information meaningful. When talking about the altitude of a triangle (the up and down part shown in the photo below) the vocabulary term of altitude becomes more meaningful both in terms of context and with the visual below.
Here is the agenda I would follow to use this application as an activity.