Trigonometric functions and graphs

  • What's that graph?
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    What's that graph?

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you work out which processes are represented by the graphs?

  • Degree Ceremony
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    Degree ceremony

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you find the sum of the squared sine values?

  • Tangled Trig Graphs
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    Tangled trig graphs

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you work out the equations of the trig graphs I used to make my pattern?

  • Loch Ness
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    Loch Ness

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Draw graphs of the sine and modulus functions and explain the humps.

  • What do functions do for tiny x?
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    What do functions do for tiny x?

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Looking at small values of functions. Motivating the existence of the Maclaurin expansion.

  • Making Waves
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    Making waves

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Which is larger cos(sin x) or sin(cos x) ? Does this depend on x ?