Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Law of Cosines

Here is a site that explains the law of cosines really clearly

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Adan D- More on the Law of Sines and Oblique Triangles

Here is a site that explains the Law of Sines and gives an example.
http://math.info/Trigonometry/Law_of_Sines/

The Ambiguous Case (SSA)

This case is for two sides and a nonincluded angle (SSA). Since there are several possibilities this case is called the Ambiguous case. I found a website that makes it a bit clearer than the book does, at least for me!

http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/math/algtrig/ATT12/lawofsinesAmbiguous.htm

Another way to look at laws of sines and cosines

I saw this site and it was helpful to see another way that laws of sines and cosines were explained. Take a look at this!

http://www.clarku.edu/~djoyce/trig/laws.html

Need Extra Help with the Law of Sines???

Khan Academy is a great website because you can watch lectures and you can rewind and replay parts if you don't quite understand them.

go to http://www.khanacademy.org/ and scroll down to find more help and more lessons.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

If you think Trig is unimportant think again!!!

I came across this website yesterday and thought some of you might like to read it.

http://www.mathworksheetscenter.com/mathtips/trigonometry.html

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Good website for learning and honing skills on verifying identities

http://www.karlscalculus.org/trigid_examples.html

This website will help you through the steps to verify identities. It is a good website to review for the test which is coming up on Tuesday.