Getting Triggy With It
Hands-on Trigonometry
@Fouss
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Radians and the Unit Circle
Activity | Purpose | Supplies Needed |
Smartie Arcs | Definition of a radian | Smarties, paper circles |
Measuring Triangles | Value of a radian | Triangles, radian protractors |
Patty paper unit circles | “Build” unit circle (use triangles for ordered pairs) | Patty paper, paper with 3 circles |
Triangle Rotations | “Build” unit circle (this one’s a keeper) | Circles, triangles (both card stock), brads |
Trig Wheel | Practice with degrees/radians/ordered pairs | 2 circles (on different color card stock), brads optional |
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Radians and the Unit Circle
Other radian stuff …
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Graphing
Activity | Purpose | Supplies |
Spaghetti graphing | Produce a sine/cosine curve | Graphs, spaghetti |
Match an equation to an image | Image (My attempt with desmos) | |
Temperature Graph | Match an equation to a set of data | Graph paper, set of temperature data |
Match an equation to a situation | packet | |
Create a sine curve based on data | packet |
Graphing
Desmos activities
Transformations: https://teacher.desmos.com/polygraph/custom/572b37affef5961a063f7011
Match My Trig Function: https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/5718f998f53cec5f274b497c
Marbleslides - Periodics: https://teacher.desmos.com/marbleslides-periodics
A definition of trigonometry in less than 140 characters
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Want some other ideas from the #MTBoS?
Julie’s stations: https://ispeakmath.org/2016/03/03/trigonometry-stations/
Jon Orr’s Two Truths and a Lie: http://mrorr-isageek.com/better-questions-two-truths-one-lie/
Trig Sorting: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lz01ef7td7q8ct4/Trig%20Sorting.docx?dl=0
Meg’s radian cut outs: http://www.megcraig.org/?p=995
Shireen’s original cut out post: http://mathteachermambo.blogspot.com/2015/09/trig-match-up.html
Transformations with pipe cleaners: http://teachhighschoolmath.blogspot.kr/2011/02/using-pipe-cleaners-for-transformations.html?m=1
7 Hard Trig Problems: https://owlcation.com/stem/Hard-Trigonometry-Math-Problems
Trig Expression Playing cards (Jon Orr) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wb00mnkzmrvugfw/AABTJnMjcEE4lF2em5Nu0sg5a/Trigonometric%20Properties%20Playing%20Cards%20%2816%20Per%20Page%29.pdf?dl=0
Jennifer Cook’s Color by number: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6VHg34weejQT3MyRG9PbFhZb3M/view
Jennifer Cook’s Trig Graphing Headbandz game: http://mrscookkhs.blogspot.com/2013/06/headbandz.html
Jonathan Claydon’s Inverse Trig War: http://infinitesums.com/commentary/2012/12/7/inverse-trig-war.html
Count by radians (online) https://www.wisc-online.com/learn/formal-science/mathematics/gem2306/learn-to-count-by-common-radian-units
Unit Circle Race http://goo.gl/ntq6S0
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Other ideas:
Duck Duck Radians (sit 16 in circle, name angles as you go; mess up and you’re running!)