First we Understand - Trig Origami (10-12)

Grade 10 is the first time students experience Trigonometry. Too often, it is taught as a purely symbolic exercise that handicaps kids with trust issues... "Where did that number come from? Why is sin(30) = 0.500? Where did my calculator learn to generate magic numbers?" We know kids learn from Concrete to Representational to Abstract (C-R-A), but too often, we teach Trig backwards... A-R-C. It doesn't have to be that way. Trig Origami helps to create a visual framework for the learners, a sense of how and why decimals turn into degrees, and folds those into Conceptual understandings of Trigonometry that we can build on to solve bigger problems. … But First, we Understand