Standard Focus

AA.GSR.7: Develop an introductory understanding of the unit circle; solve trigonometric

equations using the unit circle.

Mild Intellectual Impairment

Low Tech Tool Options

Models and Manipulatives: The use of models and manipulatives of the unit circle and
special triangles could provide struggling students with a geometric understanding which
words and algebra may struggle to convey. It could be of particular use for struggling students
who are lost during lectures.

Personal Whiteboards: Teachers could provide students with personal whiteboards to give
more opportunities to express thinking and problem solve with the unit circle. This could allow
teachers to better aid students with mild intellectual impairments by giving insight into
misunderstandings and difficulties students are having so that targeted assistance can be
given.

High Tech Tool Options

Online Assessment Tools: If a teacher employs the use of online assessment tools, it could
both provide rich data for the teacher to analyze student learning progress in addition to
providing more practice and feedback for students who need it.

Video Conferencing Tools: Where further student assistance is needed, it may help to
employ video conferencing tools to tutor struggling students virtually outside of normal class
time. This could help with students who need help that may not be able to stay after school in
person.

App Options

Tinkercad: Allows students to directly interact with math manipulatives and express their
intelligence in multiple ways. In other words, it opens multiple gateways of entry and exits.

Kahoot: Gamifies assessment of the unit circle and solving trigonometric

expressions/equations. In this context, I may tweak the Kahoot to ask more conceptual
questions that provide more than one answer, allowing the students to go into discourse about
their answer.

Universal Design Ideas

UDL Options for Recruiting Interest: Provides learners with as much discretion & autonomy
as possible by providing choices in level of challenge, types of tools used, and sequence or
timing of tasks.

UDL Options for Executive Functions: Break long-term goals into reachable short-term
objectives.
Attention Disorder

Low Tech Tool Options

Geometric Shapes: Providing students with manipulative geometric shapes is a good way to
aid in a visual and geometric understanding of the unit circle in absence of technological
options.

Flashcards: The creation and use of flashcards can be a great way to remember critical
values on the unit circle. This could be especially valuable for students who struggle to
remember from lessons alone and need some extra repetition.

High Tech Tool Options

Visual Math Presentations: While teaching lessons on the unit circle, it may be particularly
effective to employ visual math presentations especially when introducing the content. Making
important visual connections early builds a foundation for understanding students can think
back to during more word and notation heavy parts of the unit where attention may waver.

Gamification Platforms: Using gamification platforms to help students study the unit circle
may particularly help students who struggle with attention otherwise. Gamification can provide
rapid feedback while aiding in student motivation.

App Options

Desmos: The online graphing calculator Desmos can be used to provide clean visual
representations for the unit circle, and experienced users can even create interactive class
activities through the platform. The clarity gained through a visual understanding relies less on
prolonged attention than algebra and case by case memorization.

Kahoot: The website Kahoot can be used as a fun and engaging way to quiz students on the
unit circle. The competition and gamification Kahoot offers can motivate and hold the attention
of students much better than traditional formative assessments or worksheets do.

Universal Design Ideas

Difficulty Differentiation: It may help with the sustained effort and persistence from students
to give a variety of problem difficulties to students for the unit circle and trigonometry. Multiple
points of entry can help sustain attention both from high achieving students bored by simple
problems and struggling students who may be discouraged when starting with difficult ones.

Problem Solving Autonomy: Giving students open ended problems with autonomy in how to
solve them can help recruit interest that could easily be lost through repetitive guided work.
Solving for unknowns in an initially ambiguous situation may require strategic thinking rather
than just procedural execution.
Physical Impairment

Low Tech Tool Options

Alternative Grip Tools: Having pencil grips or marker grips are a great tool for students with
physical impairments as it allows students to hold and grasp a pencil or marker without as
much difficulty and can write their notes or answers to equations.

Non-Slip Mats: These can be put under a students notebook and allows for a student with
physical impairment to have their work space stabilized and will not let their pencils roll off the
desk.

High Tech Tool Options

Interactive Math Software: When learning a concept in this case the unit circle having a
visual and auditory representation right in front of a student who has Mobility problems allows
the student to access it where they are without moving.

Touchscreen Devices: a touchscreen device does not need fine motor skills to operate thus
allowing students with Mobility problems an ease of access to use other programs and
software to help understand concepts being taught.

App Options

Assistive Touch: Assistive Touch offers virtual buttons that allow users to navigate a device
without actually having to touch it. Virtual home buttons, back buttons, screenshot buttons,
and volume control — even turning the device on and off — are suddenly simple tasks to
perform. Available for Android and iOS users.

Google Voice Access: A basic but very effective program located in most devices. This
changes the function of the device from being used via touch to being operated via your
voice. This gives students many voice commands for Basic navigation, Controlling the current
screen and Text editing and dictation.

Universal Design Ideas

UDL Options for expressive skills and fluency:

● Compose in multiple medias such as text and speech
● Uses web-applications

UDL Options for physical action:

● Provides alternatives in the requirements for rate, timing, amplitude, and range of
motion action necessary to interact
● Provides alternatives for physically responding
● Uses alternative commands for navigation
Auditory Sensory Impairment

Low Tech Tool Options

Trigonometric Tables: Having a reference table of the equations used allows for a student
with auditory problems to not mishear what the formula they are using for an equation is and
gives a visual of the formula.

Math Manipulatives: Having a visual representation that a student with auditory problems
can manipulate and make connections of what is being taught to a physical object and can
visualize what the teacher means when they say adjacent or hypotenuse and thus can grasp
the words mentioned to them.

High Tech Tool Options

Noise-Canceling Headphones: When doing class work or taking a test allowing a student
with Auditory problems to wear noise canceling headphones will let students not get
distracted by the noises in the classroom.

Visual Math Presentations: While teaching any unit to a student with Auditory problems
having a visual presentation on the topic at hand in this case the unit circle with pictures
allows for the student to have a visual to connect the words being said back to thus the
student can follow along to the words without misunderstanding the information given.

App Options

Otter: Is an app on the phone which will record and transcribe what is being said in real time
allowing a student with Auditory problems to get real time captioning to follow along with what
the teacher is saying in the classroom.

Tinkercad: An online app/program that allows students to manipulate a virtual form of any
shape which can allow students with Auditory problems to have a visual representation of
what the teacher is explaining when it comes to a certain shape, in this case a right triangle or
unit circle when doing trigonometry.

Universal Design Ideas

UDL Options for Perception:

- Provide written transcripts for videos or auditory clips
- Provide visual diagrams, charts, notations of music or sound
- Use text equivalents in the form of captions or automated speech-to-text for spoken
language

UDL Options for Language & Symbols:

- Present key concepts in one form of symbolic representation with an alternative form
Visual Sensory Impairment

Low Tech Tool Options

Handheld Magnifiers to help students get a closer view of the symbols. Helps students focus
on a smaller scope of words/symbols instead of a broader view. This is very useful for getting
precise measures of a unit circle.

Math Manipulatives that do not involve a lot of colors and they can directly interact with the
mathematics. As long as students are familiar with symbols and basic shapes, then they can
use physical math manipulatives to follow along in uncovering the coordinates of a unit circle.

High Tech Tool Options

Interactive White Boards: Students have full access to take notes, use UI in a way in which
helps them learn. Interactive whiteboards are fully adaptable to most students which allows
them to express their mathematical ideas about deriving the unit circle and also solve
trigonometric equations using it in multiple means of representations.. It also creates multiple
means of engagement. People with visual sensory impairment also benefit from this since
they can adapt the interactive white board to fit their needs to express their ideas.

Learning Management System: Can make automated recommendations based off the user
profile. So students who have visual sensory impairment can get specific courses catered to
them. For example, they may get a different type of homework assignment that is similar to
what the other students may do but it would be very specific for them.

App Options

Audio recording software that allows students to listen to the lecture. Allows students with
severe Visual Sensory Impairment to have an audio representation of the lecture and I could
use it to go over steps of deriving the unit circle.

Math Melodies allows students to engage with mathematics musically. Can use this to help
them engage with the material.

Universal Design Ideas

UDL Options for Perception: Use text equivalents in the form of captions or automated
speech -to -text for spoken language.

UDL Options for Language & Symbols: Clarify unfamiliar syntax (math formula or symbols)
or underlying structures (in diagrams, graphs, and illustration).
Second Language Learners

Low Tech Tool Options

Problem-Solving Journals: For students with difficulty understanding a process in one

language, the use of this particular journal aids them by letting them form the unit circle in
their own words. A good tool if technology is limited or non-existent for this particular unit.

Whiteboard: Having a whiteboard available for demonstration lets students with language
barriers physically see what is being demonstrated. A valuable tool to let students who want
to ask questions in another language to show where a point of confusion is located on the
board for all to see.

High Tech Tool Options

Tablets and Laptops: With the use of Tablets and Laptops, many of these devices bring a
plethora of uses for students with language barriers. Whether it be for translating words of the
teacher, seeing examples online to correlate the lesson, or to learn via a program that speaks
their primary language, these technologies aid in any form of learning. This applies to the unit
circle and solving for them.

Video Conferencing Tools: A good tool inside and outside of class. This lets students
interface and talk to peers/teachers inside and outside of the classroom so pacing can be
maintained. This lets students ask questions to the teacher anywhere and lets the teacher
translate where needed or explain a concept as needed.

App Options

Delta Math: Delta math is a phenomenal program that gives questions to students to answer
and give immediate feedback. As the program goes, it finetunes and adjusts as the student
needs. For example, if the student understands the unit circle well, they will advance to higher
order questions and connect to the next lesson. If not, the program will slow down and explain
more thoroughly the lesson and give more questions to see if the student understands. This
lets those who understand better advance and give more time for those who need it.

Nearpod: A program used to aid students in learning via use of videos, diagrams, and games
to learn from one single platform! This aids students who are multilingual to see connections
made in the lesson to help see the full picture. This can help students see the connections
made from the unit circle and see the basics.

Universal Design Ideas

UDL Options of Perception:

● Use text equivalents in the form of captions or automated text-to-speech
● Provides visual diagrams to assist
● Varies the display of information via language

UDL Options for recruiting interest:

● Provides choices in the level of challenge the student want
● Provides tasks that ask for active participation