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Common Core Algebra 2, Unit 9
Flip your classroom, or offer engaging visual aids to your lessons with a series of videos that explore the concept of trigonometry. After an introduction to the topic, high schoolers investigate reference triangles, unit circles, and...
Lesson Planet Curated
Krista King Math: Pre-Calculus
A precalculus playlist of 29-videos demonstrates the processes and includes step-by-step explanations of functions. The collection includes inverse trig functions, polar coordinates, graphing polar curves, parametric curves, analytic...
Lesson Planet Curated
Getting into Trig
Starting with right triangles (SOH-CAH-TOA) and working up to the concept of radians, this collection introduces students to trigonometric ratios and supports them in learning to evaluate trigonometric functions.
Khan Academy
Introduction to the Unit Circle, Trigonometry
In this video, Sal shows how the sine and cosine of an angle are defined on the unit circle. He inscribes a 30-60-90 triangle in the unit circle and explains how to use SOH-CAH-TOA to find the circle's coordinates.
Calculus Expert
How to Remember the Unit Circle
Seeing structure in the patterns is key to understanding the unit circle, and it takes time to become comfortable with those relationships. The video gives learners access to repeated instruction to allow time to develop those patterns.
Embedded Math
The Unit Circle
You and your learners will enjoy having a nicely organized, typed up unit circle, all filled in with degrees and radians as well as cartesian coordinates.
EngageNY
Special Triangles and the Unit Circle
Calculate exact trigonometric values using the angles of special right triangles. Beginning with a review of the unit circle and trigonometric functions, class members use their knowledge of special right triangles to find the value of...
Project Maths
The Unit Circle
It's not just any circle—it's the unit circle. The fourth lesson in the series is an introduction to the famous unit circle. While working through a series of activities, young scholars learn the components of the unit circle and how to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Unit Circle: Special Angles—Just Know One
It's all about the patterns! Young scholars learn that the unit circle repeats itself in all four quadrants. Using these patterns, they evaluate the sine, cosine, and tangent of special angles.
Concord Consortium
Measuring the Unit Circle
Here's the right task to investigate right triangles in the unit circle. A short performance task has learners determine the product of two side lengths in a unit circle. They must apply similarity concepts and trigonometric ratios to...
Curated OER
Unit Circle
In this Pre-Calculus worksheet, students solve problems involving angles and the unit circle. The four page worksheet contains a combination of twenty multiple choice and free response problems. Answers are provided.
Curated OER
Method for Remembering the Coordinates of the Points in the First Quadrant on the Unit Circle
For this Unit Circle worksheet, students explore a method to help remember the coordinates of the points in the first quadrant on the unit circle. Answers are provided as well as a completed unit circle.
Curated OER
Exercise Set 4.3: Unit Circle Trigonometry
For this unit circle worksheet, students answer 90 short answer questions about the unit circle. Students sketch angles given a radian measure. Students find the trigonometric values of various angles on the unit circle.
Curated OER
What Does the Graph of the Cosine Function Look Like?
Using the unit circle and the values of _ at 0, ¹/2, ¹, and 3¹/2, the instructor shows how to construct the cosine graph by translating the x-coordinate of the unit circle to the graph. She then looks at the domain, range, amplitude,...
CK-12 Foundation
Unit Circle: Medieval Castle Defense
Who needs a plan — let trigonometry protect you! Pupils determine the angle of an approaching enemy to a village wall. The scholars determine the exact value of trigonometric functions for the angle. Class members use trigonometry to...
Curated OER
What Does the Graph of the Sine Function Look Like?
Using the unit circle and the values of _ at 0, ¹/2, ¹, and 3¹/2, the instructor shows how to construct the sine graph by translating the y-coordinate of the unit circle to the graph. She then looks at the domain, range, amplitude,...
5280 Math
Pythagorean Triples
From Pythagorean triples to the unit circle. Learners use the Pythagorean Theorem to find Pythagorean triples and then relate their work to the unit circle in a fun algebra project. Their discovery that x^2+y^2 is always equal to one on...
EngageNY
Properties of Trigonometric Functions
Given a value of one trigonometric function, it is easy to determine others. Learners use the periodicity of trigonometric functions to develop properties. After studying the graphs of sine, cosine, and tangent, the lesson connects them...
Project Maths
Trigonometric Functions
From a circle to a cycle! The final lesson of a five-part series challenges learners to use points from the unit circle to plot a repeating pattern. The repeating patterns become the graphs of the trigonometric functions. Scholars also...
EngageNY
Why Call It Tangent?
Discover the relationship between tangent lines and the tangent function. Class members develop the idea of the tangent function using the unit circle. They create tables of values and explore the domain, range, and end behavior of the...
Radford University
Discover Radians!
No need for radians to be mysterious. Scholars use a cardboard cut-out of a unit circle and measure the radius and circumference using a piece of string. They consider the number of radii needed to cover the entire circumference and use...
Curated OER
The Unit Circle
In this unit circle worksheet, students measure angles in circles and label each point in the amount of degrees, or radian measurement. They measure and label 36 angles located in three circles.
CK-12 Foundation
Radian Measure: Unit Circle Conversions
Individuals investigate the relationship between radian and angle measurements by using an interactive to find the angle measurement for given radian measures. Users answer questions to convert between the two measurements.
CK-12 Foundation
Reference Angles and Angles in the Unit Circle: Exploring Reference Angles
A steal of a deal — get four angles for the value of one. An interactive resource allows individuals to visualize all four angles that have the same reference angle. Pupils answer questions by using the interactive to create the...
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