Stay on course to learn about tangents. A brief video describes how to graph the tangent function. The method shown here is to make a table of tangent values to graph on the coordinate plane.

Concepts

graphing trigonometric functions, tangent

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the worksheet as homework
  

Classroom Considerations

• Resource assumes students use scientific calculators
• Pupils should be familiar with how to determine tangents of given angles
  

Pros

• Thorough explanations make the topic easy to understand
  

Cons

• Takes a large amount of time showing how to determine tangent values on a calculator, but does not actually use the values to plot the graph
  

Common Core

HSF-IF.C.7.e