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Senol Namli – International Education Studies, 2024
This study investigates the problem-solving strategies employed by ninth-grade students when addressing symbolic and real-world contextual problems involving trigonometric ratios. Conducted with 46 ninth-grade students from a Turkish public high school, this research employed a worksheet consisting of six problems aligned with the Turkish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 9, Trigonometry
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Price, Charmaine; van Jaarsveld, Pieter – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2017
This article reports on using open-response questions to reveal the level of, and change in, conceptual understanding of a small sample of Grade 11 learners of trigonometry in a South African high school. The investigation used learner response sheets in a regular classroom with the teacher as researcher. Combining the idea of concept image and…
Descriptors: Trigonometry, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 11
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Bhattacharjee, Pramode Ranjan – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2014
This paper being an extension of Bhattacharjee (2012) is very much relevant to Year 9 to Year 10A in the "Australian Curriculum: Mathematics". It also falls within the purview of class IX to class XII curriculum of Mathematics in India (Revised NCERT curriculum) for students aged 14-17 years. In Bhattacharjee (2012), the discovery of…
Descriptors: Trigonometry, Definitions, Secondary School Mathematics, Misconceptions
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Stupel, Moshe – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2012
The notion of periodicity stands for regular recurrence of phenomena in a particular order in nature or in the actions of man, machine, etc. Many examples can be given from daily life featuring periodicity. Mathematically the meaning of periodicity is that some value recurs with a constant frequency. Students learn about the periodicity of the…
Descriptors: Trigonometry, Arithmetic, Mathematical Formulas, Foreign Countries
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Tuna, Abdulkadir – World Journal of Education, 2013
This study examined the knowledge levels of prospective mathematics teachers about the concepts of degree and radian, which are among the angle measuring units that constitute the basis of trigonometry, and the relationships between those concepts. The study group consisted of 93 prospective mathematics teachers attending a state university in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematical Concepts
Glanfield, Florence, Ed.; Tilroe, Daryle, Ed. – 1992
This document is designed to assist teachers by providing practical examples of real world applications of high school mathematics. Fifteen problems are presented that individuals in industry and business solve using mathematics. Each problem provides the contributor's name, suggested skills required to solve the problem, background information…
Descriptors: Algebra, Area, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries