What will my teaching look like with Precalculus with Trigonometry? How is a class period structured?
Precalculus with Trigonometry: Concepts and Applications is adaptable to a wide range of teaching styles. In a typical day, you might start with a warm-up, perhaps using the Quick Review problems, or review homework questions. Alternatively, you may sometimes choose to have a brief class discussion about the previous night’s Reading Analysis question. Then students might spend 15–30 minutes doing an Exploration, a guided investigatory worksheet in which they work together to solve problems, explore patterns, and make a conjecture about a mathematical property, or in which they work through a complex problem and note interesting or non-intuitive results. Following a discussion of what students discovered in the Exploration, you might further present the day’s lesson or work through an example problem. Other days may be more teacher-directed, perhaps including a lecture that is supported by a presentation sketch that uses dynamic animation to illustrate a concept. Explorations and proble
