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> but I was also sad and a bit upset the unit circle was not taught in high school I'm not a mathematician, but that sounds like poor teaching to me. Even if
by mkl95 4y ago
> but I was also sad and a bit upset the unit circle was not taught in high school
I'm not a mathematician, but that sounds like poor teaching to me. Even if it's not part of the programme, learning the unit circle takes literally a few minutes and is an invaluable tool afterward. I don't know if it's possible to develop an intuition for trigonometry without learning the unit circle.
- hgomersall 4y agoThe problem is, these tools always feel like they should be "the way" it's taught. I feel complex numbers should be taught as a special case of geometric algebra, though I suspect that would make things much more difficult. My understanding is that lots of university level maths _is_ taught like this: start from the most general case.