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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Rational Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
Exercises are provided for practice with rational equations. Click the "answer" link to check your work.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Percents of Increase, Decrease, Discount

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this lesson with examples in planning instruction on percent of increase, decrease, and discount. In this resource, you'll find three questions with solutions on ways to determine percent.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Solving Rational Equations

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This mathematics resource consists of notes and examples on how to solve rational equations.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Exterior Angles of Polygons

For Students 6th - 8th
This site explains what the measure of the sum of exterior angles is for any polygon, and shows how to find the measure of individual exterior angles for regular polygons with a drawn example.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Direct Variation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has eleven interactive problems dealing with Direct Variation. Allows you to answer in multiple choice format and gives an explanation for the correct answer.
Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Midpoint of a Line Segment

For Students 9th - 10th
Examples for using the midpoint formula are given at this site.
Study Guide
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Activity for Combinations

For Students 9th - 10th
A lesson, practice activity, and teacher resource for exploring combinations using six photographs of dogs.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Graphing Parabolas

For Students 9th - 10th
Works through an example to show how to graph a parabola. Also shows what a positive and negative axis of symmetry looks like.
Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Absolute Value Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The concept of absolute value equations is explained and then explored through several examples. Tips and suggestions are offered as to the common pitfalls to avoid. An all-class activity is also explained for the teacher to engage the...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Kirchhoff's First Law

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a short definition of Kirchoff's First Law as well as illustrations & animations that show how the law works.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: General "Transformation" Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a short discussion of transformations. The discussion has few pictures and expresses the transformations in terms of relative coordinates rather than pictures.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Basic Constructions

For Students 6th - 8th
This site gives a few tips when using a compass for the optimal drawing techniques.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Error in Measurement

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What are the common errors made when students take measurements and how can they be avoided? A good deal of vocabulary associated with measurement errors is explained. Tips are provided for the student and the teacher in hopes of...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Working on a Rescue Team Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Your young scholars are part of the Yellowstone National Park rescue team which has just been dispatched to help located a downed plane. How can they effectively use the Law of Sines and the Law of Cosines to assist them in finding the...
Handout
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Definition of a Relation and a Function

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Very basic definitions of mathematical relations and functions can be found here. The single example provided shows a relation which is not a function and explains what makes it so.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Parallel Through a Point

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This step-by-step demonstration teaches students to construct a line parallel to another through a given point.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Conjunction: And

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn what a conjunction is and why it is important to know what a conjunction is when using logic to solve mathematical problems. This website includes examples of the conjunction "and" used in mathematical sentences and a "truth table."
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Disjunction: Or

For Students 3rd - 8th
What is a "Disjunction"? What does "or" mean? This website answers these questions and provides examples of disjunctions used in mathematical sentences and problems.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Conditional: If, Then

For Students 3rd - 8th
At this website, learn terms "Conditional," and "Implication," and their relationship to mathematics and logic. Includes examples of "If, then," sentences that are both "True," and "False," as well as a "Truth table."
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Biconditional: If and Only If

For Students 6th - 8th
Students studying logic, who already know what conditionals are and how to solve them, are ready to work with biconditionals. This website provides a definition of "Biconditional," and includes examples of biconditionals that are "Used...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Working With Logic

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test your logic and knowledge of conditionals, biconditionals, negations, conjunctions, and disjunctions in this twelve-question quiz. Answer each question on your own, then see what the answer and the reasoning behind the answer are.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Order of Operations

For Students 3rd - 8th
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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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Multiplication of Rational Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Exercises are provided for practice with multiplying rational expressions containing variables.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practicing With Evaluating Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th
Several exercises are given to practice evaluating expressions. Answers are provided for students to check their work.