The general polynomial form is:
$$\begin{align} f(u) &= \sum\limits_{n=0}^{N} \ a_n \ u^n \\ \\ &= a_{\small{0}} + \Bigg(a_{\small{1}} + \bigg(a_{\small{2}} + \Big(a_{\small{3}} + \,... \big(a_{\small{N-2}} + (a_{\small{N-1}} + a_{\small{N}} \,u \,)u \, \big)u \ ...\Big)u \, \bigg)u \, \Bigg)u\\ \end{align}$$
The latter form is using Horner's method, which is highly recommended, especially if you're doing this in single-precision floating point.
Then for a few specific functions:
square root:
$$ \begin{align} f(x-1) & \approx \sqrt{x} \quad \quad 1 \le x \le 2 \quad \quad N=4\\ a_0 & = 1.0 \\ a_1 & = 0.49959804148061 \\ a_2 & = -0.12047308243453 \\ a_3 & = 0.04585425015501 \\ a_4 & = -0.01076564682800 \\ \end{align} $$
If $2 \le x \le 4$, use the above to evaluate $\sqrt{\tfrac{x}{2}}$ and multiply that result with $\sqrt{2}$ to get $\sqrt{x}$. As with $\log_2(x)$, apply power of $2$ scaling to scale the argument to the necessary range.
base 2 logarithm:
$$ \begin{align} x\cdot f(x-1) & \approx \log_2(x) \quad \quad 1 \le x \le 2 \quad \quad N=5\\ a_0 & = 1.44254494359510 \\ a_1 & = -0.7181452567504 \\ a_2 & = 0.45754919692582 \\ a_3 & = -0.27790534462866 \\ a_4 & = 0.121797910687826 \\ a_5 & = -0.02584144982967 \\ \end{align} $$
base 2 exponential:
$$ \begin{align} f(x) & \approx 2^x \quad \quad 0 \le x \le 1 \quad \quad N=4\\ a_0 & = 1.0 \\ a_1 & = 0.69303212081966 \\ a_2 & = 0.24137976293709 \\ a_3 & = 0.05203236900844 \\ a_4 & = 0.01355574723481 \\ \end{align} $$
sine:
$$ \begin{align} x\cdot f(x^2) & \approx \sin\left(\tfrac{\pi}{2} x \right) \quad \quad -1 \le x \le 1 \quad \quad N=4 \\ a_0 & = 1.57079632679490 \\ a_1 & = -0.64596406188166 \\ a_2 & = 0.07969158490912 \\ a_3 & = -0.00467687997706 \\ a_4 & = 0.00015303015470 \\ \end{align} $$
cosine (use sine):
$$ \cos(\pi x) = 1 \, - \, 2 \, \sin^2 \left(\tfrac{\pi}{2} x \right) $$
tangent:
$$ \tan(x) = \frac{\sin(x)}{\cos(x)} $$
inverse tangent:
$$ \begin{align} \frac{x}{f(x^2)} & \approx \arctan(x) \quad \quad -1 \le x \le 1 \quad \quad N=4 \\ a_0 & = 1.0 \\ a_1 & = 0.33288950512027 \\ a_2 & = -0.08467922817644 \\ a_3 & = 0.03252232640125 \\ a_4 & = -0.00749305860992 \\ \end{align} $$
$$ \arctan(x) = \tfrac{\pi}{2} - \arctan\left( \tfrac{1}{x} \right) \quad \quad 1 \le x $$
$$ \arctan(x) = -\tfrac{\pi}{2} - \arctan\left( \tfrac{1}{x} \right) \quad \quad x \le -1 $$
inverse sine:
$$ \arcsin(x) = \arctan\left( \frac{x}{\sqrt{1-x^2}} \right)$$
inverse cosine:
$$\begin{align} \arccos(x) &= \frac{\pi}{2} - \arcsin(x) \\ &= \frac{\pi}{2} - \arctan\left( \frac{x}{\sqrt{1-x^2}} \right)\\ \end{align}$$