Students use math to help them discover the movement of a pendulum.

Students study the history of kites and their fundamental properties.  For this kites lesson students divide into teams and build and fly kites. 

Students collect data on the time of the ferry. For this algebra lesson, students use the data to predict a ferry schedule. They also compute the depth where oxygen would be needed when diving.

Students explain why some colonists remained loyal to England during the American revolution. In this social studies lesson, students write a letter to an editor about their reasons for remaining loyal to England.

Young scholars explore properties of triangles using angle bisectors, incenters, circles, midpoints, and altitudes. They use Geometer's Sketchpad in order to create triangles and their properties.

Students study the nature of a satellite's orbit around the Earth.

The resource consists of an activity that investigates the graph of the sine function.

The mathematics tutorial examines the sine function. The interactive tutorial explores the period, phase shift, domain, and asymptotes of the sine function.

The tutorial explores graphing and sketching sine functions of the form a*sin(bx+c). The activity has several examples with detailed solutions.

Students can use this site to practice questions dealing with trigonometric graphs. Students are challenged with multiple real-world problems and after solving those problems they can check their solution online.

Definition of a sine function. Range and period also are given. Graph of sine function given as well.

MathWorld provides graphs of the sine function, both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional. Higher level mathematical applications given, including the hyperbolic sine function, representation of the sine function as an infinite sum as well as...

Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to the various parameters used in graphing the elementary sine function. Technology use is very heavy, as students are encouraged to graph different sinusoidal...

This site provides a presentation on inverse trigonometric functions. In the presentation students will learn to evaluate and graph the inverse sine function, other inverse trigonometric functions and the composition of trigonometric...

This applet allows the user to create the graphs of sin, cos, and tan by moving a scroll bar. The user can watch the unit circle and the graph simultaneously to see how the two are related. The user may also choose to see the angle...

The trigonometry tutorial explores the graphs of the basic trigonometric functions. The interactive tutorial investigates the range, domain, and asymptotes of the functions. The activity has several examples with detailed solutions.

This math lesson gives formulas for the hyperbolic trigonometric functions, a very most important property of their version of the Pythagorean Theorem, and it's verification, and many helpful visual aides.

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center provides a quick overview of the graphs of the six trigonometric functions, with angles measured in radians.

The tutorial investigates period and frequency by examining the shapes of the sine and cosine functions. The resource consists of definitions, animations, interactive graphs, and examples. Practice problems with solutions are included.

An interactive graph provides a demonstration to show how the measure of an angle is related to the sine and cosine waves. Topics covered include amplitude and period. Examples allow students to practice the concepts.

Students learn about the graphs of the sine, cosines, and tangent functions. The tutorial consists of notes and examples.

The mathematics tutorial examines inverse trigonometric functions. The tutorial consists of explorations and examples. The interactive applet allows students to investigate domain, range, and graphs of inverse trigonometric functions.

The young scholars will discover the shape of the sine function without creating a t-chart. The students will create a sine function using toothpicks. The young scholars will then discover how the amplitude (height) and the period...

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...