Sunday, April 21, 2013

Muddiest Point-Nathan

My muddiest point in this unit cam once we got to the point where we combined the secant, cosecant, cotangent idea with the concept of transformations inside the parentheses with the theta sign.  It made sense once I finally slowed down to the point where I would figure out which pi value I was looking for.  Then I would set my equation equal to that pi value and could find theta from there.  The other idea that I struggled with was that there could be more than just two solutions.  This was an easy fix once I remembered to look  at the number in front of theta and multiply it by two to get the # of solutions.  The arc length and area of a circle seemed straight forward as well as the converting from radians to degrees(and vice versa).  As a whole, this unit made sense conceptually, the key was remebering the small parts of the process when solving equations. 

1 comment:

  1. Nice insight into what you found challenging, even if you quickly noticed it and fixed it!

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