Watch this video if you struggle with how to teach graphing the sine and cosine functions.
I will show you how to graph a specific cosine function step by step.
This technique works with both sine and cosine functions and works with all transformations.
After trying a few different ways to teach this topic over the years, this particular technique has been very successful for my students. Your students will like this, too!
If you want a free copy of the PowerPoint presentation that I use to teach this lesson, scroll to the bottom of this page.
Here's the link to the trig graph paper
Here's the link to a resource that I use with my students
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