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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Quadratic Inequalities

For Students 9th - 10th
The mathematics tutorial explores quadratic inequalities. The lesson consists of class notes, calculator tips, examples, and practice problems with solutions. The teacher resource includes a worksheet on matching graphs with equations.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Patterns and Functions

For Students 6th - 9th
The assessment includes 20 multiple choice questions that investigate patterns and functions. Solutions with explanations are included.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Communism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains the history of communism throughout the world. Looks at the principles of Marxism and communism, Karl Marx, and major communist political victories around the world.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Venn Diagrams

For Students 6th - 8th
Four examples (with increasing difficulty) of Venn diagrams are given. Solutions are provided along with explanations and diagrams showing how the answers were derived.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Organizing and Venn Diagrams With Congruent Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As a resource for teachers, an activity of how to connect Venn Diagrams with the five methods of proving triangles congruent - SSS, SAS, ASA, AAS, HL - is explained.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Signed Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial on signed numbers features lesson plans, practice pages, examples, application problems, and interactive work. Teacher resources include overhead manipulatives, card games, a Bingo game, and graphing calculator downloads.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Order of Operations and Evaluating Expressions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally. This sentence takes on greater meaning when young scholars realize it will assist them in remembering the all-important order of mathematical operations. A lesson plan, several interactive practice...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Operations With Radicals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The rules for how to simplify radicals and how to perform the operations of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing radicals are explained. A multiple-choice interactive quiz is provided for the students to test their knowledge of...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Homeostasis Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an easy to understand overview of the Biochemical processes, disease, and feedback mechanisms of homeostasis.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Scientific Notation Practice

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
The practice exercises review scientific operations including converting to and from scientific notation, multiplication, and division.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Multiplication and Division of Radicals

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the steps necessary for multiplying and dividing radicals. The examples are easy to follow.
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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.
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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.
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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...
Activity
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Positive, Negative, and Zero Exponents

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
At this site from Oswego City School District, students are shown the basic laws which govern simplifying positive, negative, and zero exponents. Examples are provided during the explanations, and then practice problems (and their...
Lesson Plan
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.