Create a shift in TV viewing habits. The interactive presents a cosine model of an individual's TV viewing habits during a year. Class members move the model to reflect given conditions. Finally, they determine key features from the graph along with its equation.

Concepts

vertical, horizontal, translations, graphing trigonometric functions, trigonometric functions, cosine, sine

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Lead a discussion on how the translations of a trigonometric function can be represented using another function

Classroom Considerations

• Must sign up for a free account to login
• The interactive covers both vertical and horizontal shifts

Pros

• Shows the correct answer if an incorrect response is given
• The video covers both horizontal and vertical translations

Cons

• A couple of the solutions do not match what can be visualized in the interactive

Common Core

HSF-IF.C.7.a HSF-IF.C.7.e