Station 3. Round and Round We Go.

In this station we compared various graphs with Sine, Cosine, and Tangent by using an interactive Ferris Wheel as the unit circle. The interactive allowed you to compare the three graphs and to see them in motion so you could see how each degree was different in comparison to each radian to each graph: Sine, Cosine, and Tangent.


http://www.andrewbusch.us/uploads/1/5/1/2/15122632/9561526_orig.png 

Station 2. Radians Vs. Radius...

In this station we learned that one standard radian is the equivalent of the radius on the unit circle. We compared the length of the radius with a pipe cleaner to the arch length and marked the end of that pipe cleaner to indicate the terminal or other side of the angle. That angle was the equivalent of one radian. In the end we discovered that 6 radians fit into a circle evenly with a little of a quarter of a radius left over.



http://courseware.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/8/163/assignments/91


http://zonalandeducation.com/mmts/trigonometryRealms/radianDemo1/RadianDemo1.html

Station 5. Standard Position on the Unit Circle

We learned that standard position always begins on the right x axis side. With this interactive we also observed which angle measures lied in which quadrants. We also learned that a quadrantal angle is when the terminal side (or where the angle measure ends) ends up on an x or y axis.


http://laddlincolnguevarra.tumblr.com/post/107075551402/angles-in-standard-position



http://www.pinkmonkey.com/studyguides/subjects/trig/chap2/t0202206.asp

Standard Position

Station #5

In this activity I learned about angles in standard position.  An angle is in standard position if it's vertex is on the origin and one ray (initial side) is located on the positive x-axis.  The initial side is the one on the x-axis, while the terminal side can move.  If the terminal side lies on one of the axes than an angle is considered a quadrantal angle.

What is a radian???

What is it?!

Station #2

In this activity we explored into the world of a circle.  We learned that a radian is an angle equal to a circle's radius.   In the picture you can see this.  I enjoyed this activity because it was interactive and consisted of creating what is seen below.   

station 2- Briar Edgerly

This is station 2. In this station you used the radius and compared it to the circle.

Overview w/ E Whales

This is a picture of what our sheet looked like to keep track of all of our stations. We got cool stickers when we did our work and that was very motivating. On this sheet, you can see Station #1 on it and that was a cool station because we got to see where some of the math we were learning about was used in the real world. We looked at a couple different websites to see where in the world we could use math like this. It was kind of neat. 


This is a picture of me and Summer having a grand ole time in math. We really enjoyed these stations because we love learning and we love PreCalc. Go math! 


I thought that this picture was cool because we are learning a lot about pie and such.