Illustrative Mathematics
Overlapping Squares
The objective of this activity is to find the percent of the area of a two squares overlapping. Mathematicians find the ratio of area for the part that overlaps to the rectangle formed. The final answer is a percent as a rate per 100....
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Working With Sets and Venn Diagrams
This Oswego City School District site gives an explanation of Venn diagrams, then uses a word problem to show how Venn diagrams can be applied to solve algebraic equations.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Truth Value of Open Sentences
What happens when there is not enough information to solve a problem? Find out at this test prep site, how missing information or "open sentences" can change the value or truth of a math equation. Practice understanding and applying this...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Compound Locus
Loci are applied to word problems in this online tutorial. Practice problems are included. The teacher resource page supplies practical problems.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Order of Operations
If you need a place to practice applying the order of operations this is it. A nice feature here is that you can click on the answer and also see a step-by-step listing of how to correctly solve each problem.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Negation: Not
Use this website to help you hone your critical thinking and math-problem solving skills. Learn what "Negation," is and how it applies when you are working on mathematical problems and sentences.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Powers of Products
This lesson will teach you how to apply the Power of Products rule to exponential expressions. The variety of examples will help you use this rule for similar problems.