Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Algebraic Fractions

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Mutually Exclusive & Independent Events

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Unit Circle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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....
Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Area of a Triangle and Parallelogram Using Trig

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Handout
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Algebra 2: Definition of Inverse Function

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Radical Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Activity
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Styles of Proof

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
Activity
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Bisect a Line Segment and an Angle

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This step-by-step tutorial teaches students how to construct a bisector of a segment and the bisector of an angle.
Activity
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Copy a Line Segment and an Angle

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site provides a step-by-step method to construct congruent segments and angles with a straight edge and compass.
Activity
Oswego City School District

Regents Test Prep Center Perpendiculars

For Students 3rd - 5th
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.
Handout
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Intuitive Notion of Point Symmetry

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This intuitive explanation shows how to determine if an object has point symmetry. The site offers examples of objects with point symmetry.
Interactive
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Working With Point Symmetry

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Fun graphics and realistic problems in point symmetry for students to solve and check.
Activity
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Negation: Not

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
Lesson Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Irrational Approximations

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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...
Activity
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Organizing and Interpreting Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Several problems are presented to test your skills in creating and interpreting frequency tables, pie charts, box-and-whisker and stem-and-leaf plots.
Study Guide
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Quadrilateral Family

For Students 9th - 10th
Regents Prep displays and explains the different types of quadrilaterals.
Study Guide
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Photo Activity for Symmetry

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Applied Solids

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A seven-question quiz will help you practice answering questions dealing with the volume and area of solids.
Study Guide
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Spheres

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What is a sphere? Find a definition, example images, and formulas to help you determine volume and surface area given the radius.
Study Guide
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Cones

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What is a cone? Find a definition, example images, and formulas for determining volume and surface area.
Handout
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Nys Mathematics Glossary: Geometry [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The glossary consists of mathematical terms used in geometry. Definitions and examples are included. The resource is intended for teacher use only.
Interactive
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Interactive Games and Puzzles for Algebra 2 & Trig

For Students 9th - 10th
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.]
Handout
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Geometry: Things to Remember [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this information sheet to help remember key geometric points for test preparation. This is a .pdf document.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Multiple Choice Practice: Working With Data

For Students 9th - 10th
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.