Trigonometry Lesson 3 Episode 7 (Teachers)

Reflecting

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Claire and Mary create several circles of various sizes. On each of the circles, they trace out an arc whose length is the radius of the circle. They create angles at the centers of the circles that cut out these arcs. They compare those angles. A new unit of angle measure is defined: the radian.


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