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Interactive
Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Trig Ratios

For Students 6th - 8th
Investigate the cosine, sine, and tangent ratios of trigonometry using this interactive Learn Alberta math resource. Students will use these ratios to determine a right triangle's unknown side or angle. Be sure to follow the link to the...
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Interactive
Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Trigonometry (Video Interactive)

For Students 6th - 9th
This multimedia Learn Alberta math resource looks at how trigonometry is used in making sure that airplanes land safely at airports. The accompanying interactive component gives students practice in using trigonometric ratios, namely...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Telling Time With the Sun

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this activity is a very basic introduction to the tangent function and it's applications (such as measuring distances). Through this lesson, students will learn the definition of the tangent...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring Functions With Cas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity students use the CAS tool to explore sin, cos, and tan functions. They expand the functions and find the domain. They also prove the conjectures.
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Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Graphs of Sine, Cosine and Tangent

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn about the graphs of the sine, cosines, and tangent functions. The tutorial consists of notes and examples.
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Unit Plan
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Sine, Cosine, Tangent

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about the sine, cosine, and tangent functions. The tutorial consists of notes, examples, and practice problems to check for comprehension.
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Activity
Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Tangent Function

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The mathematics tutorial explores the tangent function. The interactive tutorial investigates the period, phase shift, domain, and asymptotes of the tangent function.
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Graphic
Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Table for the 6 Trigonometric Functions for Special Angles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learners explore the special angles for the six trigonometric functions. The special angles can be used to solve trigonometry problems. The table gives the values of sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant, and cosecant for special angles.
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Activity
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Tangent

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Graphs of the tangent function, both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional. Higher level mathematics applications given including the hyperbolic tangent function, important relevant identities, the Macluarin series for the tangent function,...
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Interactive
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Graphs of Tan, Cot, Sec, & Csc

For Students 9th - 10th
Several examples are presented that demonstrate how to graph the tan, cot, sec, and csc functions.
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Activity
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 10th
Just about everything you need to know about trigonometry can be found here. Interactive examples and demonstrations help to enhance the lessons. Although not required, the tutorial uses Live Math and Scientific Notebook.