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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Reciprocal Identities

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Get a better understanding of the trigonometric functions by taking a look at the flip side. Pupils create angles within a unit circle and compare the values of the standard trigonometric functions to their reciprocal functions. The...
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

From Tan to Ten

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Combine simplifying trigonometric expressions with evaluating them! An open-ended question presents a trigonometric expression and numeric values for additional expressions. Learners must determine a value for the original expression by...
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Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Finding Trig Values

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Let's keep trigonometry simple. When given a cosine ratio, learners must use the clues about the quadrant to determine the sine and tangent ratios. The answer key has a complete worked-out solution to help guide pupils through the problem. 
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Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Trigonometric Ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Take an alternative route with trigonometry and let learners connect a tweaked version of the pythagorean theorem to the original in terms of triangle sides. The assignment leads participants towards deriving the Pythagorean identity...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

What Is a Trigonometric Identity?

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Protect yourself from identity theft! Establishing a strong understanding of the Pythagorean identity allows learners to prove that sine^2x + cos^2x = 1. They then use the identity to find sine or cosine ratios given the other.
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Instructional Video24:21
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Flipped Math

Intro to Trigonometry

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Expand trigonometric ratios beyond right triangles. Pupils start with a review of trigonometric ratios and then take a look at angles in standard position to determine their measurements. Scholars discover how to find coterminal angles...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Calculations with Sine and Cosine

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Practice makes perfect and perfecting those trigonometric functions are vital in trigonometry. The task requires evaluating cosine and sine values at common degree measures before looking at the results. Is there a pattern when the...
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

A Monosignic Function

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Complex fractions and trigonometric expressions combine to create a challenging task ... as if they aren't challenging enough on their own! The task challenges individuals to consider the range of possible values when substituting in the...
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Broken Spreadsheet II

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Work in reverse with the product becoming the given. Using a spreadsheet image of the graph of a trigonometric function, young scholars investigate methods of creating spreadsheet data that results in the given graph. The catch? The data...
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Instructional Video25:49
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Flipped Math

Unit Circle and Radians

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Measure angles is easy as pi. Pupils review special right triangles to find exact values for trigonometric functions. Scholars learn about radians and how they connect to measurements in degrees. They find exact and approximate values of...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Incredibly Useful Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Start the exploration of trigonometry off right! Pupils build on their understanding of similarity in this lesson that introduces the three trigonometric ratios. They first learn to identify opposite and adjacent sides before exploring...
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Activity
Curated OER

Sunrise, Sunset

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
What locations on Earth get the longest number of hours of daylight in the summer? Hint: It's not the equator! Use real-world sunrise and sunset data to develop trigonometric models that can be used to estimate the number of hours of...
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Lesson Plan
K20 LEARN

Round and Round We Go

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Connect the dots on trigonometry with K'nex. Scholars use a K'nex model of a Ferris wheel to collect data points to plot on a height versus time graph. They'll then consider what type of function best models the data in the graph—and...
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Activity
101 Questions

Ferris Wheel

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Around and around you'll go! Learners analyze the periodic nature of a Ferris wheel. Using a trigonometric function, they make predictions about the location of a specific car at the end of the ride and its total trips around the circle.
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Measuring the Unit Circle

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
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...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Trigonometric Functions

For Students 11th
In this trigonometric functions activity, 11th graders solve 10 different problems that include applying various trigonometric functions in each. First, they determine the nearest degree that contains the measure of an acute angle formed...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Inverse Trig

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this inverse trig worksheet, students solve and complete 24 various types of problems. First, they evaluate each of the trigonometric inverses shown. Then, students find x and y in each trigonometric derivative. They also find the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Trigonometric Functions

For Students 10th - 12th
For this trigonometric functions worksheet, students graph a given trigonometric function.  This one-page worksheet contains 1 problem.  Graph paper is included. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Trigonometric Identities

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this trigonometry worksheet, students derive the 6 different trigonometric identities. They use the identities to solve problems by multiplication of trig ratios. There are 102 trig questions to be solved.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Trigonometric Word Problems

For Students 10th
In this trigonometric word problems worksheet, 10th graders solve 16 different problems that include various trigonometric situations. First, they determine at what angle a ladder makes with the ground. Then, students determine the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Trigonometric Ratios

For Students 10th
In this trigonometric ratios worksheet, 10th graders solve 9 different problems that include determining the trigonometric ratios of each triangle. First, they determine the sides and angles of a right triangle that is shown in each...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Trigonometric Functions

For Students 11th
In this trigonometric functions worksheet, 11th graders solve and complete 5 different sets of problems. First, they find each angle using angle addition/subtraction formulas as shown. Then, students prove each of the identities provided.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Graph Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 12th
In this graphing trigonometric functions learning exercise, students graph 1 sine equation.  Students plot the graph of the function y=-0.5sin(-3x).
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Trigonometric Examples of Integration by Substitution

For Students Higher Ed
In this integration worksheet, students use trigonometric identity and integration by substitution to solve given integrals. This two-page worksheet contains three problems.

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