Law of Cosines-- An Exploration
For this final project I have decided to do a deeper exploration on the Law of Cosines and ways to present this to a class of high school students. I have decided to create a Sketchpad Exploration that will help the students develop a reasonable hypothesis to lead them to the formula of the Law of Cosines. In particular, I am encouraging them to generalize. The following is an outline of a lesson for introducing the Law of Cosines.
Below is a PDF file of the overview of this exploration, Demonstration GSP file, and Student Version GSP file. Click HERE to see a video explaining this exploration (or see below).
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