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Comment [SS1]: This is to be used BEFORE trigonometry on the unit circle is introduced. This gets students thinking about the unit circle and coordinates without layering on sine/cosine/tangent Just playing around and thinking conceptually and concretely.
Directions: On the previous page is a unit circle. Youre going to practice using a protractor and estimating coordinates on the circle. Let the point (1,0) represent 0 degrees, (0,1) represent 90 degrees, (-1,0) represent 180 degrees, and (0,-1) represent 270 degrees.
xcoordinate
ycoordinate
(a) (a)
slope of angle
(a)
angle
x-coordinate
(a)
ycoordinate
(a)
slope of angle
0.30
(b) (a) (a) (b) (b) (b) (b)
-0.62
(b)
(a)
(a)
(a)
(a)
0.77
(b) (b) (b) (b) (a)
-1.23
(b) (b)
(a)
(a)
(a)
(a)
(a)
1
(b) (a) (b) (a) (b) (a) (b) (a) (a)
-0.89
(b) (a) (b)
0.30
(b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b)
-0.2
Now Id like for you to make some observations and answer some questions. (1) Did you use vertical and horizontal lines to help you? If so, how? If not, thats totes fine too!
(2) What did you notice while filling out the table?
(3) What did you wonder when you were filling out the table?
(4) Is there a y-coordinate that I could have filled in that would have given only one answer to the y-coordinate? If so, what is it? Are there any others? If not, what is your reasoning?
(5) Is there a slope that I could have filled in that would have given only one answer to the x-coordinate? Are there any others? If so, what is it? Are there any others? If not, what is your reasoning?
(6) If I gave you the x-coordinate and no unit circle diagram, can you think of a way to get the y-coordinate? If you need a hint, look at the footnote.1
Comment [SS2]: The idea behind 6, 7 is to see if any kids are thinking algebraically the x^2+y^2=1 relationship for the unit circle
(7) If I gave you the slope of the angle and no unit circle diagram, can you think of a way to get the x-coordinates and the y-coordinates?
(8) If I gave you the x-coordinate and no unit circle diagram, can you think of a way to get both angles?
Comment [SS3]: The idea behind this question is to how that getting the angle algebraically is hard/impossible with what they know now but this open question will be resolved later with their calculators and knowledge of inverse trig.
Comment [SS4]: This part of the worksheet is to be done AFTER unit circle trig is introduced the point is to get students to think about inverse trigonometry more concretely.
Comment [SS5]: Obviously in class discussion it should be brought up that the answers are the same as in the PREVIOUS packet on the unit circle as these are the same angles same for the backward problem.
sine
cosine
tangent
sine
cosine
tangent
cos 0.30
Equation
Solution(s)
sin 0.62
Equation
Solution(s)
Above are graphs of sine and cosine. Use the graphs to come up with the solutions to the following equations (between
0 o and 360o )
Comment [SS6]: A relationship between the unit circle and the graphs should be emphasized
Equation
Solution(s)
Equation
Solution(s)
(1) Lets extend things! What if we looked at all possible angles, not just the angles between 0 o and 360o can you find all solutions to sin 0.77 ?
Calculators!
Your calculators have the ability to give you the solutions that youre approximating by hand (using the protractor or graphs). If you have x 2 4 , we know to get the variable alone, we undo the squaring by the square root. So we get
Equation
Calculator Solution
Equation
Calculator Solution
However we saw above that there are multiple solutions to cos 0.30 (between 0 o and 360o ), not just one! Lets reconsider x 2 4 There is a second solution to this, which our calculator did not give us. It is x 2 . Similarly, our calculator only gave us one solution to cos 0.30 , but there is another! One solution ( 72.54o ) is in the first quadrant, but the second solution is in the ________ quadrant! I know this because:
Now go back to the table above and determine what quadrant the second solution will be in, and then determine the second solution to all the problems!
(2) Write a trig equation which has no solutions for (between 0 o and 360o ). Explain how you came up with your equation and how you know it hasnt any solutions.
(3) Write a trig equation which has exactly three solutions for (between 0 o and 360o ). Explain how you came up with your equation and how you know it only has exactly three solutions.
(4) Write a trig equation which has only one solution for (for all angles). Explain how you came up with your equation and how you know it only has one solution.
(5) Write a trig equation which has no solutions for (for all angles). Explain how you came up with your equation and how you know it hasnt any solutions.
(6) Write a trig equation which has exactly three solutions for (for all angles). Explain how you came up with your equation and how you know it only has exactly three solutions.
(7) Write a trig equation which has exactly two solutions for (between 0 o and 360o ) in quadrants II and IV. Explain how you came up with your equation and how you know it only has the solutions in the correct quadrants.
(8) Write a trig equation which has exactly two solutions for (between 0 o and 360o ) in quadrants III and IV. Explain how you came up with your equation and how you know it only has the solutions in the correct quadrants.
(9) Write a trig equation which has exactly two solutions for (between 0 o and 360o ) in quadrants II and III. Explain how you came up with your equation and how you know it only has the solutions in the correct quadrants.
(10)Write a trig equation which has exactly two solutions for (between 0 o and 360o ) in quadrants I and IV. Explain how you came up with your equation and how you know it only has the solutions in the correct quadrants.
(11)Write a trig equation which has exactly two solutions for (between 0 o and 360o ) in quadrants I and II. Explain how you came up with your equation and how you know it only has the solutions in the correct quadrants.