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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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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Ilion High: Build a Clinometer

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Instructions for building a clinometer are given on this page. Clinometers can be used to measure the angle of elevation of a right triangle, and in turn find the height of large objects.
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eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Geometry: Circle and Pi: Degrees and Radians

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rather than dividing a circle into some number of segments (like 360 degrees), mathematicians often prefer to measure angles using the circumference of a unit circle - a circle with radius 1. This way of measuring angles is called...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometry: Inverses by Mapping

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find the inverse of a trig function by mapping.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometry: Trigonometry in Terms of Algebra

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Define trigonometric relationships with algebraic ratios.
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Handout
Other

University of Cambridge: Starry Messenger: Hipparchus and the Astrolabe

For Students 9th - 10th
A summary of Hipparchus' achievements as an astronomical observer, concentrating on the possibility that he invented the astrolabe, a device used to tell the time at night from stellar positions. Contains more links on Hipparchus.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Slide Into the Past

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Learners will be introduced to the slide rule through A brief history on its use. They will practice simple calculations (multiplying and finding values of trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions) using a virtual slide rule.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Conic Sections: Playing With Parabolas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Through a mixture of online exploration, and teacher instruction, students will discover how parabolas are formed and will be able to use the key components from a graph (vertex, focus and directrix,) to generate the equation of a graph.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Rags to Riches or Riches to Rags?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson young scholars will apply the interest formulas to make the best investment decision for our fictional character Algebrea Calculique. The students will be provided with a story explaining the situation that Algebrea faces...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How High Did My Rocket Go?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a lab in which the students will calculate the height of an air or water rocket by using trigonometry.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Traveling Around the Unit Circle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is intended to review the key ideas associated with trigonometric functions.The design of this lesson provides a collection of reproducible activities to be used in a classroom setting where learners have varied backgrounds /...
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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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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra Ii: 4.2 Right Triangle Trig Extended to Circles With a Model

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section explores the relationship between right triangles, circles, and trigonometry. It investigates how a right triangle that is set inside a circle and rotates around the circle is connected to trigonometric functions and their...
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Lesson Plan
Khan Academy

Khan: Lesson 16: Part 2 Coordinate Geometry; Trigo and Radians; Complex Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
2 OF 2 FOR ADDITIONAL TOPICS IN MATH. Students will use the coordinate plane and equations of lines and circles to describe figures; create the equation of a circle given the figure or use the structure of a given equation to determine a...
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Handout
Cuemath

Cuemath: Trigonometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about the basics of trigonometry, the various identities-formulas of trigonometry, solved examples, and practice questions.
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Using Identities to Evaluate

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Demonstrates how to evaluate trigonometric functions by using trig identities.
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Activity
Mathematics Archives

Math Archives: Trigonometric Substitution

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource has many examples of integration using trigonometric substitution that the student can work on and then check their answers. Includes hints.
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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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Activity
Math2

Math2.org: Trigonometry Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete look at trig functions. From an "overview," page giving general definitions and important vocab words, to a listing of the 12 trig functions, to an explanation of the three modes used in trigonometry, to the procedures of how...
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Activity
Math2

Math2.org: Table of Integrals

For Students 9th - 10th
Seven tables are provided which give the rules for integrating powers of x, exponential and logarithmic integrals, trigonometric integrals, and hyperbolic integrals. Very detailed step-by-step proofs are given for some of the more...
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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
University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Navigation Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
These two navigation problems employ the use of the law of sines or cosines and basic trigonometry. Each problems includes links to a sketch of the problem for visual help, and to a solution.