Math 10C Module 4

Module 4: General Relations

Launch

This section checks to see if you have the prerequisite knowledge and skills to be able to complete this lesson successfully.

Are You Ready?

Complete these questions in your course folder (binder). If you are experiencing difficulty, you may want to use the information and the multimedia in the Refresher section to clarify concepts before completing these exercises.

Print (or copy by hand) and Complete.

Lesson 4: Are You Ready?

Once you have completed these exercises to the best of your ability, use the provided answer link to check your work.
Answers
If you feel comfortable with the concepts covered in the questions, move forward to Discover. If you experienced difficulties or want more practice, use the resources in Refresher to review these important concepts before continuing through the lesson or contact your teacher.

 

Refresher

The purpose of this section is to provide you with some resources to review in preparation for the lesson ahead. These resources may include videos, interactive applets, mini-lessons, and flash games to help you recall previously learned concepts. You can use these resources either before or after you try the questions in Are You Ready? Your teacher may also direct you to this section to review specific concepts.

In earlier lessons of this module, you mainly worked with the first quadrant of the coordinate plane. In this lesson you will be working with all four quadrants.


Complete the following game to see if you are ready.

The “Maze Game” activity allows you to practise point-plotting skills by moving a robot through a mine field to a target location. 

When you play the game, you should choose the “Yes” button in the space where you are asked “Randomize initial starting and ending positions.” Begin by entering an x-coordinate and a y-coordinate into the boxes below the grid. Then, press “Go” to move the robot to the point you selected. Repeat until you reach the target.

Go to “Quadrant” at the Mathematics Glossary website to review the definition of a quadrant in the coordinate plane. You will also be able to see how the quadrants are named.

 

Read

 

Review the definition of the tangent ratio by studying an example in your textbook. 

Foundations and Pre-calculus Mathematics 10 (Pearson)

 

Read the bottom half of page 71 and the top of 72. Then work through “Example 1: Determining the Tangent Ratios for Angles.”


Then go to “Formula” at the Mathematics Glossary website to review some familiar formulas. You will also be able to see how formulas can be rearranged to isolate specific variables.

Materials

  • tape measure or ruler

  • staircase to measure