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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Trigonometry via Mobile Device

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the relationships between angles and side lengths in right triangles with the help of materials found in the classroom and a mobile device.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Handheld Trigonometry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In addition to understanding the concept of similar right triangles and how they apply to trigonometric ratios, young scholars explore a clinometer app, and discover how it can be used to test the mathematics underpinning trigonometry.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: You've Got Triangles!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about trigonometry, geometry and measurements while participating in a hands-on interaction with LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT technology. First they review fundamental geometrical and trigonometric concepts. Then, they estimate the...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Angles in Geometry

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a look at angles in geometry. Drawing, labeling, measuring, special angles: (right, straight, acute, obtuse) and congruence.
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Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Triangle Exploration Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab is designed to have students look at some of the different relationships that exist in a right triangle. Students will be able to change the x-leg and y-leg of the triangle and then measure the angle and the hypotenuse of the...
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra Ii: 4.3 the Unit Circle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Activities in this lesson explore how to identify the coordinates where special right triangles intersect with the unit circle in all four quadrants, use both degrees and radians to identify angles, and explore angles of different sizes...
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Squaring the Triangle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about how the Pythagorean Theorem works through investigating the standard geometric proof.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Zona Land: Trigonometry Right Triangles

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduction to right triangles and how to solve them using trigonometric functions. Very nice interactive demonstration of what happens when the angle measurements change and how it effects the calculations. This visual might be just...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Zona Land: Trigonometry Right Triangles

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduction to right triangles and how to solve them using trigonometric functions. Very nice interactive demonstration of what happens when the angle measurements change and how it effects the calculations. This visual might be just...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Zona Land: Trigonometry Right Triangles

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduction to right triangles and how to solve them using trigonometric functions. Very nice interactive demonstration of what happens when the angle measurements change and how it effects the calculations. This visual might be just...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Zona Land: Trigonometry Right Triangles

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduction to right triangles and how to solve them using trigonometric functions. Very nice interactive demonstration of what happens when the angle measurements change and how it effects the calculations. This visual might be just...
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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: 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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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Land Surveying Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project resulted from of the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher, Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life application in...
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Activity
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Homotecia Y Semejanza

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In Spanish. In this interactive activity you can understand and know how to apply direct and inverse homothety to simple shapes, apply Thale's theorem, construct similar polygons and work out their related measurements and know how to...
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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.
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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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Lesson Plan
OER Commons

Oer Commons: Classifying Triangles

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, learners learn to classify triangles by the size of the angles and the measures of the sides. Students will use interactives to explore equilateral, isosceles, scalene, acute, obtuse, and right triangles. Included are...
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Nctm Math Challenge Three Squares (Pdf)

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
If you think you can handle the Pythagorean Theorem, then this is a math challenge you should try. Explore geometric relationships and measurement in this one page activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Classifying Triangles by Identifying the Number of Equal Sides

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video overview and attempt practice problems on classifying triangles based on the number of equal sides.