Editorial Review:Description:Does the Pythagorean Theorem sound like greek to you? Confusing sine with astrological sign? The Standard Deviants are more fun than a textbook and cheaper than hiring a tutor! This trigonometry tutorial will guide you through the twisted world of the Pythagorean Theorem, sines, cosines, tangents, amplitude, curves, double-angle formulas, sum-to-product-formulas and identities, and more! Includes Trigonometry Parts 1&2 at a 15% discount.
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Good, Fun Video -- only covers the basics
All the Standart Deviant videos are fun to watch. They have a Saturday-Night-Live format with different people and skits.
The material covered was good, and it is a great intro to those who haven't any trig background.
The video series downfall is the material not covered or covered in enough depth: trig identities, vectors, polar and rectangular conversions, imaginary number plane with radical and exponential equations. I found the material not covered to be the toughest concepts in trig. It helps to be ahead of the instructor, but the videos were no help in these tough areas.
Some of the other Standard Deviant titles are better done, but this video is still a great intro to the easier 2/3 of the material you will encounter.
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Pretty good
Trig is never going to be easy, but it's not as difficult as Calculus, except perhaps if your Trig education was woefully neglected. I would think this would be a good investment for any student who wanted an overview of a Trig class before taking it. Though the student would have to watch the tape, rewind the parts that were difficult or required repetition, and do the proper memorization. For an older person who wants to figure out just what Trig was, or what exactly "the relationships between different parts of a triangle" means, this can be quite helpful. The drive to be entertaining can be a bit annoying as it's kind of like "Mad Magazine meets Sesame Street teaches Math," but this is a standard hazard of the Standard Deviants. The producers have a lot of material to get through, and get through it they do, though I felt something was missing in their discussion of Oblique Triangles. And I'm very glad I don't have to memorize the radian/degree equivalencies and trig functions of the "special angles."
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want some real advice...get the whole math pack
I used to have nightmares about being chased by giant triangles.
Not any more! the tapes make the unclear...clear thats bottom line. no they arent perfect and nope not enough problems... but overall if your struggling this is the way to go..period
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makes learning much easier
We can learn faster and with less pain when using video educational products. All i can say is that any one taking high school and college trig should get theses tapes.
