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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Telling Time With the Sun ActivityTexas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Telling Time With the Sun Activity
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Texas Instruments
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9th - 10th
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Telling Time With the Sun

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Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this activity is a very basic introduction to the tangent function and it's applications (such as measuring distances). Through this lesson, students will learn the definition of the tangent function as opposite over adjacent.

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angle of elevation, tangent

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definition of tangent, numb3rs, tangent function, texas instrument, ti, numb3rs: telling time with the sun, texas instruments

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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