Integrated Math II · Week 27 · Similarity and Right Triangle Trigonometry
Angles of Elevation
Trig problems about ramps and accessibility in the community.
- Students will
- Students use the Pythagorean theorem and trigonometric ratios to find missing sides and check ramp slopes.
- SEL skill
- Explain who an accessibility rule protects and how a steeper ramp affects someone
- What it looks like
- Students practice social awareness by explaining who the 1 to 12 ramp rule protects and how a steeper ramp would affect a wheelchair user.
- Content focus
- Using trigonometry to solve right triangles
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Social awareness is seeing a situation through someone else's eyes and empathizing with them, especially when their experiences differ from yours. More self-management activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- G-SRT.8: High School Geometry: Similarity, Right Triangles, and Trigonometry, standard 8
- Standard for Mathematical Practice: MP4 Model with mathematics
- CA Mathematics Framework (2023): Discovering Shape and Space
- Traditional course: Geometry
Fits these textbook chapters
- CCSS Integrated Pathway Mathematics II, Unit 5: Similarity, Right Triangle Trigonometry, and Proof
- Carnegie Learning Integrated Math II, Module 2: Investigating Proportionality
- CPM Core Connections Integrated II, Chapter 3: Probability and Trigonometry
- CPM Core Connections Integrated II, Chapter 4: Factoring and More Trigonometry
- CPM Core Connections Integrated II, Chapter 6: More Right Triangles
- Savvas enVision Integrated Mathematics II, Topic 9: Similarity and Right Triangles
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More self-management activities for Integrated Math II
- Powers and Patience Self-managementRational exponents through pattern work, with a calm strategy for confusing notation.
- Launch Day Self-managementModeling a projectile with a quadratic and planning a goal with a peak and a landing.
- Factoring Our Way Through Self-managementFactoring quadratics with a stuck plan and partner hints.
- Completing the Square Self-managementCompleting the square step by step, with a breathing reset between steps.
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