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 * Week 3 Performance Task, Assignment 1 (revised): **


 * Topic:** Vectors as Right Triangles and Their Properties


 * Objective:** Students will be able to construct right triangles and determine angles as well as side lengths.


 * Enduring Understandings:**
 * All vectors are right triangles.
 * All right triangles can be broken up into their horizontal and vertical components.
 * These components can be added or subtracted, the results creating new triangles.
 * Sine, Cosine, Tangent, and the Pythagorean Theorem can be applied to determine side lengths.


 * Essential Questions:**
 * How can right triangles be broken down into their horizontal and vertical components?
 * How can horizontal and vertical components be re-combined to create right triangles?
 * How can we create one giant right triangle out of multiple smaller ones?

 Click here to see the Performance Assessment Task for Assignment #2.
 * NCTM Standards:**
 * Understand vectors and matrices as systems that have some of the properties of the real-number system.
 * Develop an understanding of properties of, and representations for, the addition and multiplication of vectors and matrices.
 * Draw reasonable conclusions about a situation being modeled.
 * Use trigonometric relationships to determine lengths and angle measures.