Analytic Trigonometry

These materials are written primarily for students engaged in independent study in both structured and unstructured environments. Carefully formulated instructional objectives serve as the fundamental organizational unit in Analytic Trigonometry. Each objective is prominently displayed and is followed immediately by focused discussion, summary, examples and practice problems. Various students will wish to use the materials following the objectives differently. Students who work from the general to the specific will want to digest the discussion, verify their understanding by comparing with the summary, work through the examples and, finally, do some practice problems. Other students with a different learning style may prefer to begin with concrete examples and practice problems, then read the summary to verify the insights derived from the examples, and finally, read the discussion to synthesize the information they have gained. Prominent headings invite each reader to use this material in the personally most efficient way. Those students who are learning trigonometry as a tool for solving triangles and those who are learning about the trigonometric functions as background for learning calculus will both find that these features make learning easier.