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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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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Trig Ratios Exploring Sine, Cosine and Tangent

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the Cabri Jr. App and the 83+/84+ calculators, students explore and calculate the various trig ratios. This is an easy construction but be sure to allow plenty of time for exploration and completion of the worksheet questions in...
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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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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Ratios in Right Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The study of properties of right triangles is a major topic in mathematics. In this activity, you will investigate three common right triangle trigonometric ratios. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Math Words

Math words.com: Trig Identities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This MathWords.com site lists the equations for all of the trigonometric identities.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometry: Special Triangle Ratios

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use right triangle ratios to solve for sides of triangles.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Reciprocal Trig Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the right triangle definition of sec, csc, and cot ratios. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Definition of the Inverse of Trigonometric Ratios

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explain the inverse of trigonometric functions.
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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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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Trigonometric Ratios in Right Triangles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given the side lengths of a right triangle, find the sine, cosine, or tangent of one of the acute angles. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploration of Trigonometry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using TI Navigator, Cabri Jr and LearnCheck, students will explore how changing an angle in a triangle changes the ratio of the sides, and changing the sides can make changes an angle in a triangle. Students will then explore two...
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Radians

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the definition of radians and how to calculate trig ratios using radian measures. Examples are provided showing how to convert from degrees to radians.
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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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Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Exploring Similarity and Congruence

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Begin by watching this captivating video showing how the concepts of similarity and congruence are found in road signs. Following the video [1:27], an interactive applet allows students to resize, flip, move and rotate triangles to...
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Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Razones Trigonometricas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In Spanish. In this interactive activity you will learn about the six trigonometric ratios, discover relationships between the trigonometric ratios of complementary and supplementary angles and the relationship between the sides of a...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Approximation of Pi Using Archimedes' Method

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use trigonometric ratios to discover the circumference of regular polygons inscribed within and circumscribed about a circle. These ratios will help approximate a value of pi.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Solving Problems Using Trigonometry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Solving real life problem using trig ratios. Example: Finding the angle of elevation or the angle of depression. Finding the angle between two lines. Finding equation of a line that passes through two points.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Basic Trigonometry Love or Leave It!!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity has the teacher to create 3 triangles on Cabri Jr. on the TI-83 or TI-84. It will prove to students how trigonometry ratios are found. It will show to the students where the ratios are derived rather than just telling the...
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Sine, Cosine, Tan & Reciprocals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The definitions of the six trig ratios are presented here, along with several examples of how to determine the ratios given 2 or more sides of a right triangle.
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Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: Trigonometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Concepts in Trigonometry are explained and illustrated here by a member of the math department at Borough of Manhattan Community College.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Solve for an Angle in Right Triangles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given two sides in a right triangle, find one of the acute angles using trigonometry. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Solve for a Side in Right Triangles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given one side length and an acute angle in a right triangle, find another side using trigonometry. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Give Me a Sine (And a Cosine) Using Ti Navigator

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students contribute data points to build graphs of the sine and cosine functions. The transition from trig ratios to trig functions is a particularly difficult one, but it is also one where the social space of the...