Student Learning Map

  • Topic:Vectors
  • Subject(s):Math
  • Days:15
  • Grade(s):11, 12
Key Learning: Represent vectors as directed line segments and perform mathematical operations on vectors. Perform the operations using complex numbers in polar/trig form (add, subtract, multiply, divide, power, roots).
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 

How are vectors in a plane or in space represented and what operations may be performed with vectors?

   
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Vocabulary Report

  • directed line segment -
  • orthogonal vectors -
  • dot product -
  • vector components -
  • angle between two vectors -
  • initial point -
  • projection -
  • terminal point -
  • standard position -
  • component form of a vector -
  • zero vector -
  • magnitude of a vector -
  • unit vector -
  • scalar multiplication -
  • vector addition -
  • components of vectors -
  • linear combination of a vector -
  • direction angle -