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Regents Exam Prep Center: Algebraic Fractions
Fractions containing variables can challenge students--and for teachers to teach. Here are explanations of what algebraic fractions are, how they might be simplified, how they are multiplied, divided, added, and subtracted.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Mutually Exclusive & Independent Events
The somewhat tricky differences between mutually exclusive, non-mutually exclusive, independent, and dependent events are defined here. Common items such as coins, colored cubes, and a deck of cards are all part of the easy-to-understand...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Unit Circle
Two hands-on lab activities for instructors to use when teaching about the coordinate graphs of the sine, cosine, and tangent functions derived from a unit circle. The graphs of the reciprocals of the three functions are investigated....
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Area of a Triangle and Parallelogram Using Trig
How can trigonometry be used to find the area of a triangle or parallelogram? Does the triangle need to be a right triangle, and how accurate can the results possibly be? The answers to these questions are found here along with several...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Algebra 2: Definition of Inverse Function
An introductory look at the definition of an inverse function, the notation used for inverse functions, and tests used to determine whether a function will have an inverse. Several examples are provided for the student to scroll through...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Radical Equations
A thorough look at radical equations and how to solve them, including examples of several of the trickier types of problems and several of the common mistakes students make while solving them. Two interactive quizzes are provided for the...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Styles of Proof
Find out the general form for two column proofs, flow proofs, and paragraph proofs here. The site is very brief and discusses each type of proof using the same example.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Bisect a Line Segment and an Angle
This step-by-step tutorial teaches students how to construct a bisector of a segment and the bisector of an angle.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Copy a Line Segment and an Angle
This site provides a step-by-step method to construct congruent segments and angles with a straight edge and compass.
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Regents Test Prep Center Perpendiculars
This step-by-step method teaches students to construct a perpendicular to a line through a point on--or off--the initial line using compass and straight edge.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Intuitive Notion of Point Symmetry
This intuitive explanation shows how to determine if an object has point symmetry. The site offers examples of objects with point symmetry.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Working With Point Symmetry
Fun graphics and realistic problems in point symmetry for students to solve and check.
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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: Irrational Approximations
Providing one lesson, one practice exercise, and two teacher resources, the information at this website is geared toward students who already understand rational and irrational numbers. The lesson has explanations of what happens when a...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Organizing and Interpreting Data
Several problems are presented to test your skills in creating and interpreting frequency tables, pie charts, box-and-whisker and stem-and-leaf plots.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Quadrilateral Family
Regents Prep displays and explains the different types of quadrilaterals.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Photo Activity for Symmetry
This activity has instructions for making symmetrical portraits of the human face using a digital photograph. It's an activity students of all ages would enjoy.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Applied Solids
A seven-question quiz will help you practice answering questions dealing with the volume and area of solids.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Spheres
What is a sphere? Find a definition, example images, and formulas to help you determine volume and surface area given the radius.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Cones
What is a cone? Find a definition, example images, and formulas for determining volume and surface area.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Nys Mathematics Glossary: Geometry [Pdf]
The glossary consists of mathematical terms used in geometry. Definitions and examples are included. The resource is intended for teacher use only.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Interactive Games and Puzzles for Algebra 2 & Trig
This educational resource consists of interactive games and puzzles that investigate algebra and trigonometry concepts. Some concepts included are functions, quadratics, and trigonometric graphs. [Requires Java Plugin.]
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Geometry: Things to Remember [Pdf]
Use this information sheet to help remember key geometric points for test preparation. This is a .pdf document.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Multiple Choice Practice: Working With Data
Test your knowledge of working with data by taking this twenty question multiple-choice practice test. Use a graphing calculator to help with any graphing problems and check your answers at any given time throughout the test.