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This is a two day exploration of the connections between sine waves and music. It ties in various iPad apps to help students see how all music is composed of sine waves. I have also created a smore flyer to go along with the lesson: https://www.smore.com/gy9h4

Essential Question(s): Can we use what we learn in math class about trigonometry (trig) outside of the classroom? How can we do this? Learning Objectives: The student will be able to identify trig functions and recognize how they can be used in the real world. Materials Needed: • Computer (or laptop) • Trig Jeopardy Game • Trig facts sheets at front for kids to use as a reference • Trig and Music article and questions • Trig Memory Cards • Physics Problem • Scratch Paper • Calculator

A short lesson on introducing domain and range. Includes a full lesson plan and all the handouts and activities needed for the lesson.

This is a fun activity to do with a PreCal or Trig class to work on modeling sin and cosine functions with real-world data. I usually do it over two days, one to gather data and one to make in-class presentations of their graphs.

A front and back first day of school survey for middle school math.

Graphic Organizer of Logarithm Properties.

Use this trick to help your students remember the values for sine and cosine in the first quadrant.

Webquest to help students learn how to apply volume formulas to real life.

A short literature lesson to tie in independent variables to your math classroom.