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Mr. Martini's Classroom

Mr. Martini's Classroom: Right Angle Trigonometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore sine, cosine, and tangents compared to the selected angle.
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Clark University

Clark University: Dave's Short Trig Course

For Students 9th - 10th
This Clark University trigonometry tutorial site features questions and answers about what students can learn from trigonometry.
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Other

Brown Math: A 10 Minute Trig Review

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Looking for a 10-minute review of the major concepts of trigonometry? This site is a quick recap of degrees and radians, SOH CAH TOA, Pythagorean identities, and special right triangles are all found here.
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Other

Charles Sturt University: Mathematics

For Students 9th - 10th
The Univerisity of Charles Sturt provides math help in various areas including trigonometry. Site includes copies of past exams with solutions.
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Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Product and Sum Formulas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This math lesson lists the product and sum formulas, and gives detailed example of using them to solve algebraic trigonometry problems.
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NASA

Nasa: What Is Trigometry Good For?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA is for anyone who has ever asked "Why do I need to know this," this is a must read for you. It documents historical uses of trigonometry.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Measuring Distances Triangulation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan which details how to have students determine the distance to an object by sighting it from two different locations and knowing the distance between these locations. As an advanced alternative, trigonometry can be used to...
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Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: The Ambiguous Case

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from Integrated Publishing discusses the ambiguous case, which arises in trigonometry when you are given two sides of a triangle and the angle opopsite one of them. In an ambiguous case two different triangles could conform to...
Unit Plan
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

Exercises in Math Readiness for University Study: Trig

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read a lesson, look at examples, and try easy, medium, and advanced problems from a variety of trigonometry topics: radian measure of angles, trigonometric functions, trigonometric identities, and modeling with trigonometric functions.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Trigonometria

For Students 9th - 10th
In Spanish. An overview of trigonometry, trigonometric functions, and hyperbolic functions. A great resource page.
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Other

North Carolina Su: Triangles, Circles, and Waves (Oh My!)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has a basic overview of trigonometry focusing on the trig functions, trig ratios, and the unit circle.
Interactive
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Interactive Games and Puzzles for Algebra 2 & Trig

For Students 9th - 10th
This educational resource consists of interactive games and puzzles that investigate algebra and trigonometry concepts. Some concepts included are functions, quadratics, and trigonometric graphs. [Requires Java Plugin.]
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Precalculus Concepts 2.0

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
A complete high school Precalculus Concepts course. Includes 'Related Modalities' for each lesson that teach the same concept in different ways. The text materials follows Algebra II and comes before Calculus or Statistics. The content...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today When a Ruler Isn't Enough

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity illustrates a real-life problem that uses trigonometry to solve for an unknown. students can use trigonometric ratios and inverse trigonometric relationships to determine the side of a triangle and the measure of the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Activity: Air Traffic Control

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will model and solve air traffic control problems with geometry software. The Cabri Jr. application will be used to construct a model of the problem situation and concepts from trigonometry and proportions are...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Smile: Smile Program Mathematics Index

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides lesson plans for various math topics, including probability, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, patterns, applied math.
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Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Special Angles on Unit Circle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learners explore the special angles between 0 and 2 pi on a unit circle. The special angles can be used to solve trigonometry problems.
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Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Introduccion a La Trigonometria

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an interactive activity introducing the concept of trigonometry and working with trigonometric functions to solve right triangles.
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Other

Kuta Software Llc: Algebra Worksheets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Free downloadable algebra worksheets covering the basics, equations, linear equations, inequalities, trigonometry, exponents, polynomials, quadratic functions, radical expressions, rational expressions and word problems.
Interactive
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Pyramid Panic: Basic Shapes to Advanced Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Guide a mummy safely through the burial chambers of a pyramid as you solve length and area problems in basic to advanced geometry. There are four game zones that deal with circles and triangles, quadrilaterals, the Pythagorean Theorem,...
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Other

Easyphysics: Chapter 1 Basic Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource examines the basic math skills needed for studying physics. Some topics include units, scientific notation, significant digits, and trigonometry. Example problems, graphs, and a chapter quiz are included.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Vectors and Scalars Part 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A slide show presentation which shows how component parts can be used to determine a vector. It also introduces trigonometry functions to show how vectors can have rotational directions.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Area of a Triangle and Parallelogram Using Trig

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How can trigonometry be used to find the area of a triangle or parallelogram? Does the triangle need to be a right triangle, and how accurate can the results possibly be? The answers to these questions are found here along with several...
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University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Albert Girard

For Students 9th - 10th
In trigonometry today, we use the abbreviations sin, cosine and tan. Girard was the first mathematician to use these abbreviations in his work.

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