Sites I liked
i. This site is labeled “Trigonometry: A Crash Review”, It’s less of a crash and more of an intensive review
ii. While there is a lot of information on here, it’s doubtful that you need to review it all, but it’s easy to scroll down and find what you want
iii. It has a nice picture of a radian unit circle (you can even get it printed on a tee-shirt ; ) )
iv. Downsides, it has a lot of text, is all black on white, and just the look of it gets a little boring
i. This actually a pdf… and I’m pretty sure it’s from the appendix of our textbook, but I believe it counts because it’s online.
ii. Besides being from wiley and already having it, it’s very helpful.
iii. It goes through the review in a way that we should all be familiar with.
iv. It is organized well with the information and sample problems solved for you
v. There are diagrams that contribute to the contents of the text
vi. It’s nice/easy to look at, there are colors and variations in text size
vii. Since it’s in a handy pdf file you can print out specific reference pages easily
viii. Give sample problems but no solutions
i. Has a cool interactive unit circle, which although not all that useful can help you understand concepts. Oh. And it cuts off most of it.. but you can use your imagination?
ii. All the sections are listed under a title and then the main points are bulleted! (If you like the bullet system as I do than this will make your like happy)
iii. Under each section is information that is easy enough to follow
iv. There are nice diagrams
v. Explains things very simply (which I like and makes sense to me)
vi. Gives sample problems, then hints, then the solutions (and if you can’t figure it out after that try freemathhelp.com)
vii. Is it reputable? From Clark University
One I didn’t like so much
i. Has problems you can solve with links to text
ii. Have to go through a lot of pages to get to text
iii. The information is good; I just don’t like having to weave through all the pages to get to it. It’s not organized in a fashion I like.
iv. Is it reputable? Yes from a professor at University of Massachusetts Boston
i. Has bullet point organization
ii. Uses diagrams
iii. Good material, but the presentation was a lot of text, and it was hard to pick out specifics for review without reading the entire thing
iv. Focused on functions, and doesn’t cover a review of the unit circle
v. Is it Reputable? From Tennessee Technology institute
Conclusion
I think the Wiley (b.) site was the most helpful. It was really helpful that it was already in a style I was used to, but overall covered all the topics and displayed the information in an easy way. The one I thought was the next best useful was the one from Clark University (c.) It was easy to find the section you wanted to review, there were nice diagrams that went with the test, and they had a nice way of helping you do sample problems with hints.
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