Trigonometry: Grade 10

Overall Expectations

By the end of Grade 10, students will:

  1. develop the primary trigonometric ratios, using the properties of similar triangles;
  2. solve trigonometric problems involving right triangles;
  3. solve trigonometric problems involving acute triangles.

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