Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: What Is a Locus?
This site defines what a locus is and offers links to five locus theorems. Walks you through the six "Steps to solving a locus problem."
Oswego City School District
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.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: The Basic Locus Theorems
A wealth of resources for teachers introducing locus theorems to students. Lessons cover simple definitions, provide examples and diagrams, and offer connections to real-life situations. Practice exercises offer students online quizzes...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Locus at a Fixed Distance From a Line
This tutorial has students investigate the second of the locus theorems. Click on the "Topic Index" link to find related practice activities and resources.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Locus Equidistant From Two Parallel Lines
Use this site to learn about the fourth locus theorem regarding parallel lines. Click on the "Topic Index" link to find related practice activities and resources.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Locus Equidistant From Two Intersecting Lines
The fifth theorem of loci is investigated on this site. Click on the "Topic Index" link to find related practice activities and resources.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Locus at a Fixed Distance From a Point
This site defines a locus and introduces five theorems about loci. Click on the "Topic Index" link to find related practice activities and resources.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Locus Equidistant From Two Points
Use this site to investigate the third theorem of loci, equidistant from two points. Click on the "Topic Index" link to find related practice activities and resources.
BBC
Bbc: Ks3 Bitesize: Constructions and Locus
This BBC Bitesize focuses on constructions and locus. To understand this activity, you must already know how to define perpendicular, bisect, and locus.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math a Review 1
This StudyCards stack enables students to review concepts in algebra, arithmetic, and geometry, in preparation for the Math A Exam held in New York. They solve problems involving scientific notation, factoring, linear equations, rate of...
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Points and Lines
A complete reference guide to points, lines, and planes. It provides definitions and interactive activities that enhance further explanation.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Locus
This site defines the term "locus" as it is used in mathematics and gives an example of the locus as a set of points equal distance from a point in two and three dimensional space.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Conchoid of Nicomedes
This site gives an approximate date at which the cochoid was studied by Nicomedes, explains what the locus of points are which make up this curve, and give cartesian and polar coordinates for such a curve, as well as a formula for the...
Curated OER
Math World: Hyperbola
This site contains a vast amount of information relating to the hyperbola, including the definition of a hyperbola, equations in various systems, including polar, and many important characteristics of hyperbolas. Site also provides many...