Why Learn This Concept?
The reason why we chose this topic is because we thought of a creative way of doing the video section of the project. Throughout the project in the magazine and the website, one of our biggest focus was trying to be more creative and different from the other groups. We didn't want to create a project that would be easily forgotten. We were determined to make a lasting impression and hope to receive some of the "bonus" creativity points that would really help our overall grade. Our video is not an ordinary teach-on- the-whiteboard video that most people would expect. Scroll down to find out what we did for that section!
This concept is an essential topic to learn and understand in trigonometry because the graphs visually shows what the solution would be for each reference angle, or any angle, for a sine or a cosine. For example, sin(150 degrees)= +1/2 and when you look at the graph of a standard sine function, you'll see that at 150 degrees, the point is at +1/2. This concept tests whether or not your knowledge in reference angles is strong enough since reference angles are important to graph sine and cosine functions quickly and efficiently. The sine and cosine functions are the most important types of trigonometric functions out of the six because all the other functions can relate, or be referred, back to at least one of these two.
This concept is an essential topic to learn and understand in trigonometry because the graphs visually shows what the solution would be for each reference angle, or any angle, for a sine or a cosine. For example, sin(150 degrees)= +1/2 and when you look at the graph of a standard sine function, you'll see that at 150 degrees, the point is at +1/2. This concept tests whether or not your knowledge in reference angles is strong enough since reference angles are important to graph sine and cosine functions quickly and efficiently. The sine and cosine functions are the most important types of trigonometric functions out of the six because all the other functions can relate, or be referred, back to at least one of these two.
6 Trigonometry Graphs DANCE Video: Trignamite
Want to learn the graphs of the 6 trigonometric functions but don't want to just read a boring textbook. Then watch this video! Our amazing dancers have choreographed an extraordinary math dance that will help students remember what each function looks like in a fun, energetic way. Using a song that was popular years ago, our choreographers have created a dance that you and other friends can do together. People of all ages, from your grandparents to your young siblings or children, can learn this educational, simple dance. The dance consist of the standard shapes of the sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant, and cosecant graphs. It also includes some simple changes to each graph such as a reflections (by making the function negative), vertical translations (tip-toe= up 1, kneeling down= down 1), and some general horizontal translations (by walking sideways left or right).
So press play and start following along!
(The tree is used as a y-axis to differentiate the sine from the cosine graph and the secant from the cosecant graph.)
So press play and start following along!
(The tree is used as a y-axis to differentiate the sine from the cosine graph and the secant from the cosecant graph.)