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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Clock Tower

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project resulted from the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher (pre-engineering), Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Woody Sine"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The students will discover the shape of the sine function without creating a t-chart. The students will create a sine function using toothpicks. The students will then discover how the amplitude (height) and the period (number of compete...
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Lesson Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Start Here! Ready to Dive Into Some More Math?

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an overview of the lesson: Students are going to derive a powerful formula which will calculate where any point (x,y) (x, y) (x,y)left parenthesis, x, comma, y, right parenthesis goes afterrotation by an angle theta theta about...
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Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Trigonometry Functions Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete reference guide to trigonometry functions. It provides definitions, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
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Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Sine (Sin) Function Trigonometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete reference guide to the sine function. It provides definitions, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra Ii: 4.8 Pythagorean Identities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section explores the Pythagorean Identity and how it applies to right triangles set inside unit circles, in terms of sine, cosine, and tangent functions.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra Ii: 4.6 Transformations of Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore how changes to the equations of sine and cosine functions affect the graphs of the functions through transformations (stretches and shifts).
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra Ii: 4.5 Graphing Sine and Cosine

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section explores the graphs of sine and cosine functions. It investigates how these graphs are related to coordinates for different angles in a unit circle.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 7.3 Sine and Cosine of Complementary Angles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the sine and cosine of complementary angles.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 7.2 Sine and Cosine Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discover sine and cosine ratios in trigonometric ratios.
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Lesson Plan
Homeschool Math

Homeschool Math: Introduction to Sine

For Teachers 8th - 9th Standards
This is an introductory instructional activity about the trigonometric function sine. Students will study several similar right triangles and the ratio of certain two sides in them.
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Quadrants and Angles

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explains how to model angles in the x,y-plane, and demonstrates how to extend the concept of trig ratios to angles larger than 90 degrees.
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Trigonometric Identities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lists the basic trigonometric identities, and specifies the set of trig identities to keep track of, as being the most useful ones for calculus.
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: The Unit Circle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Relates the unit circle to the method for finding trig ratios in any of the four quadrants. Demonstrates how the unit circle might be useful.
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Activity
Curated OER

Zona Land: Overlapped Graph of the Six Trig Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An overview of the six trig functions and their graphs. The site is a little difficult to navigate but is good for finding a graph of a trig function.
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Activity
Math2

Math2: Trigonometric Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Sketches of the graphs of the 12 "parent," trigonometry functions are given: sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant, cotangent, arcsine, arccosine, arctangent, arcsecant, arccosecant, and arccotangent.
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Graphic
Math2

Math2.org: Trigonometry Tables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Three trig tables are provided for student and teacher reference. The first table lists the sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant, and cotangent values of all whole-number angles from 0 to 90. The radian equivalent (to four decimals)...
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Activity
Hofstra University

Hofstra University: Modeling the Sine Function

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive information on the sine function and links to the other trigonometric functions. The site includes definitions of properties of the sine function and various examples involving them. Also includes a number of real world...
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a listing of the trigonometric functions and their inverses. Their notation is also addressed along with links to each of the fundamental trigonometric functions.
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Activity
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from MathWorld.com is a site full of links to very extensive documentation on the trigonometric functions.
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Handout
Windstream

Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: More Difficult Trig Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to solving trigonometric equations by using the reciprocal, negative, Pythagorean, and cofunction identities. Includes several examples and exercises with solutions at the bottom of the page.
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Activity
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Trigonometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a good definition of trigonometry. Includes many links to key terms and many more to related terms. This site may be used as a refresher for students who have finished the course, or students currently studying the...
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Handout
Math Words

Math Words: Cofunction Identities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This MathWords.com site, which is a glossary of math terms, shows the relationship in radians and degrees between sin and cos, tan and cot, and sec and csc.
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Activity
Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Introductory lesson to trigonometric functions. Includes definitions, properties, graphs, and a wide variety of examples and practice exercises.