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Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University

Npac Reu Program: Trig Function Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center provides a quick overview of the graphs of the six trigonometric functions, with angles measured in radians.
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Handout
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University

Npac Reu Program: Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Northeast Parallel Architectures Center of Syracuse University site offers a quick overview of the six trigonometric functions from the standpoint of the unit circle.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Trigonometric Function

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from Wikipedia, a free and open-source encyclopedia, covers how to solve a variety of trigonometric equations, most of which involve substitution with a trigonometric identity. The identities themselves are not covered, but...
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Activity
Clark University

Clark University: Dave's Short Trig Course: Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 10th
The Clark University site shows and explains the graphs of the six trigonometric functions. It explains how to find an arbitrary angle measurement using trig. Also, it explains that sine and cosine functions are complementary.
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Clark University

Clark University: Dave's Short Trig Course: Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from a professor at Clark University teaches you about complex numbers.
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Other

Karl's Calculus Tutor: Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Great application of trig and introduction to the trig functions. Also found here are the Law of Sines and Law of Cosines as well as other trig topics to review.
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Activity
Windstream

Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Applications to Trig Navigation and Surveying

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial applies all of the tools from triangle trigonometry to two specific cases: navigation and surveying. There are examples of each, as well as several exercises with solutions.
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Handout
Windstream

Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Sum and Difference Formulas for Sine and Cosine

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to trigonometric identities, beginning with the sum and difference formulas. Some of the formulas are proven, some are left to the reader. Includes several examples and pictures.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometry: Secant, Cosecant, and Cotangent Functions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Calculate the secant, cosecant, and cotangent functions using the sides of a triangle.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometry: Sine and Cosecant Graphs

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Define the sine and cosecant graphs using a unit circle.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometric Functions of Angles Greater Than 360 Degrees

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Finding the value for trigonometric functions for angles exceeding 360 degrees.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometry: Trigonometric Functions of Negative Angles

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to define trigonometric functions of angles with negative values.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Pythagorean Theorem and Its Converse

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Determine if three side lengths make a right triangle, and given the length of its legs, find the length of a right triangle's hypotenuse.
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Activity
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Web Math: Try to Simplify a Trigonometric Expression

For Students 9th - 10th
This WebMath site is a java program that will simplify a trig expression. This is a good site to use to check answers to problem sets. Read the site instructions carefully.
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Interactive
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Web Math: Calculate a Right Triangle

For Students 9th - 10th
WebMath offers a java applet that allows you to input information about a right triangle, and then solves the triangle for any of the missing pieces of information. It also gives a detailed solution using the information that you provided.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometry: Inverse Trigonometric Functions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers the inverses of all six trig functions.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Solving Equations Using the Pythagorean Theorem

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use the Pythagorean Theorem to find a right triangle's missing side lengths.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometry: Sum to Product Formulas for Sine and Cosine

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Examples of transforming a sum of trigonometric functions to a product of trigonometric functions.
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Interactive
Cool Math

Coolmath: The Pythagorean Identities

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
One page reference sheet of a quick recall of the Pythagorean Identities.
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Activity
Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Trig Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this section we will give a quick review of trig functions. We will cover the basic notation, relationship between the trig functions, the right triangle definition of the trig functions. We will also cover evaluation of trig...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Algebra Ii: Amplitude of Sinusoidal Functions From Graph

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given the graph of a sinusoidal function, determine its amplitude. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Tf Foxes and Rabbits 3

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students are presented with two graphs that show the populations of foxes and rabbits in a national park over a 24-month period. This is the third Foxes and Rabbits task. In this more realistic problem, students must find functions that...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Tf Foxes and Rabbits 2

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are presented with a table that shows the populations of foxes and rabbits in a national park over a 12-month period. This is the second Foxes and Rabbits task. In this problem, students must find trigonometric functions that...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Tf Trig Functions and the Unit Circle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this task is to help students make the connection between the graphs of sin t and cos t and the x and y coordinates of points moving around the unit circle. Students have to match coordinates of points on the graph with...