Why Is Trigonometry Important

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Fellow classmates, in an environment where we spend a minimum of thirteen years in school this should be an environment that we enjoy. Learning should not be an activity that we dread everyday. We spend eight hours at school each day with a multitude of teachers. While some teachers are well equipped to do their job, there is a group that can only be described as teachers who hate teaching.
Instead of making you feel excited about the subject, they make you dread it. They overload you with busy work, or complain about how we act. They insist on how we will use trigonometry in our everyday lives, and how this information is needed to be successful. Ideas of high GPA and test scores are pounded into our heads. If you don’t make high grades,

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