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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Special Angle Values: 30 60 90 and 45 45 90 Triangles

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains a simple pictorial way to remember basic reference angle values. Provides other memory aids for the values of trigonometric ratios for these "special" angle values, based on 30-60-90 triangles and 45-45-90 triangles.
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Unit Plan
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Graphs of Sine and Cosine Functions

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive graph provides a demonstration to show how the measure of an angle is related to the sine and cosine waves. Topics covered include amplitude and period. Examples allow students to practice the concepts.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Exact Values for Inverse Sine, Cosine, and Tangent

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find all angles on the unit circle matching exact trig ratios. Resource includes examples, videos, and practice problems.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometry: Period and Frequency

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Relating period and frequency for a sine or cosine graph with examples, practice problems, and vocabulary.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometry: Trigonometric Identities and Equations

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describe general forms and graphs for cosine and sine equations.
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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
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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Website
Cool Math

Coolmath: Solving Trig Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
This CoolMath resource explains how to solve trigonometric equations
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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
Cuemath

Cuemath: Cosine Law

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about the law of cosine with definitions, what is the law, and solved examples.
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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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Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Cosine (Cos) Function Trigonometry

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete reference guide to the cosine function in trigonometry. It provides definitions, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation.
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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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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.