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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.
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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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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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Purple Math

Purplemath: Quadrants and Angles

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explains how to model angles in the x,y-plane, and demonstrates how to extend the concept of trig ratios to angles larger than 90 degrees.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 7.2 Sine and Cosine Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discover sine and cosine ratios in trigonometric ratios.
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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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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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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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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Exact Values for Inverse Sine, Cosine, and Tangent

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find all angles on the unit circle matching exact trig ratios. Resource includes examples, videos, and practice problems.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Trigonometric Ratios in Right Triangles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to find the sine, cosine, and tangent of angles in right triangles.
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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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Purple Math

Purplemath: The Unit Circle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Relates the unit circle to the method for finding trig ratios in any of the four quadrants. Demonstrates how the unit circle might be useful.
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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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Windstream

Ojk's Pre Calculus Study Page: The Four Other Trig Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Trigonometry ratios and their signs are given in this explanation of the other trig functions. Graphs of tangent, cotangent, secant, and cosecant are given. Examples are included.
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Homeschool Math

Homeschool Math: Introduction to Sine

For Teachers 8th - 9th Standards
This is an introductory lesson about the trigonometric function sine. Students will study several similar right triangles and the ratio of certain two sides in them.
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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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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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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...
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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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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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