the trig function trick is pretty neat! but i wonder if i only think that because i know trig already, and would've gotten more confused with more analogies
Yeah, to be honest, I'm writing for someone who saw the textbook definition of trig but didn't have it click. I'm not sure how it would work as a sole treatment. (However, I suspect the vast majority of people reading the article are learning trig in school alongside an existing lesson, vs. randomly reading about it with no context. The people who google "trig" for fun having never heard of it... are strange beasts.)