Embedded Math
The Unit Circle
You and your learners will enjoy having a nicely organized, typed up unit circle, all filled in with degrees and radians as well as cartesian coordinates.
CK-12 Foundation
Unit Circle: Medieval Castle Defense
Who needs a plan — let trigonometry protect you! Pupils determine the angle of an approaching enemy to a village wall. The scholars determine the exact value of trigonometric functions for the angle. Class members use trigonometry to...
CK-12 Foundation
Tangent Graphs: Slope and Angle
Learning about tangents doesn't have to be a slippery slope. Pupils drag a point around a unit circle to see how angle affects the slope of a line. They individually answer a set of challenge questions to come to the conclusion that...
Curated OER
Introducing Trigonometry
Eleventh graders explore the three basic trigonometric functions. In this trigonometry/Algebra II lesson, 11th graders use GeoGebra and the unit circle to define the ratios of sides is a right triangles as they examine the full domain...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Algebra Ii: The Trigonometric Functions
A lesson plan where students will interpret the trigonometric functions in terms of the unit circle, graph a sinusoidal function, and use a sinusoidal function to make interpretations in a modeling context.
Mathigon
Mathigon: Geometry: Circle and Pi: Degrees and Radians
Rather than dividing a circle into some number of segments (like 360 degrees), mathematicians often prefer to measure angles using the circumference of a unit circle - a circle with radius 1. This way of measuring angles is called...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra Ii: 4.3 the Unit Circle
Activities in this lesson explore how to identify the coordinates where special right triangles intersect with the unit circle in all four quadrants, use both degrees and radians to identify angles, and explore angles of different sizes...
Purple Math
Purplemath: The Unit Circle
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.
