Reflection

Some things I learned in trigonometries such as angle measures and their

calculations can be applied to the real world in fields such as medicine. For my future
career, I am planning on going into medicine and am planning for a career in
orthopedics and/or orthopedic surgery. An important application of trigonometry to
orthopedics is angle measures when finding deviations of bones or nerves. Another
important application to orthopedics is the use of trigonometry when finding out length
and angles of fractures and use that information to calculate the location and length of
plates or other medical reconstruction devices on the bone. This assignment shows that
trigonometry has many real-world applications and is important for many future careers,
including mine.
I believe that trigonometry is a useful tool due to the fact that it not only has many
real-world applications but also applies in all of the sciences and in other math subjects.
For me, for example, trigonometry is extremely useful and important as I finish up my
college career and move into medical school since it has applications in almost every
one of my future classes, such as calculus. Trigonometry is also a useful tool for things
that we may not even be that aware of. When sitting in your home, or a building, or
driving across a bridge it should be realized that trigonometry was used to build each
one of those things! Although trigonometry doesn’t have many practical applications in
everyday life, it still has many applications outside of what we may even realize.