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Surface Level Features of Expository Text | Improve Your Reading Comprehension
Effective readers use the characteristics of text to their advantage. Whether consciously or subconsciously, knowing how to use these cues to your advantage will help you to strategically read and engage with text at a more effective...
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How To Answer Multiple Choice Questions | Strategies for Finding the Correct Answer Part 2
Multiple-choice questions can be tricky because they test your ability to think critically. There are strategies, however, to increase your chances of finding the best answer when taking multiple-choice tests. In this lesson, you'll...
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Angles of Triangles and Similarity
In this video, the teacher reviews how to find angles in triangles using the triangle angle sum theorem. The teacher walks through four parts of a standardized math test question, showing step-by-step how to find missing angle...
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How to Solve a System of Linear Equations By Graphing
In this video lesson, you will learn how to graph a system of linear equations and solve them by identifying the point of intersection. You will also learn how to check your solutions to ensure they are true for both equations in the...
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Double Words: That That | Conjunction, Determiner, Pronoun, or Adverb?
Today we continue our lesson on double words in a sentence. Double words in a sentence look weird at first glance and may even confuse the reader. This certainly is an awkward construction, but today we’ll tackle another pair of double...
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Summer Idioms:Figurative Language to Enrich Your Expressions
Idioms are a form of figurative language that require a critical understanding of the expressions. Not to be taken literally, idioms are analogous to the literal representation they evoke. These eleven summer idioms relate to summer...
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Types of Relationships in Scatter Plots
In this video lesson, the teacher explains scatter plots and how they are used to show the relationship between two sets of data. They cover different types of relationships, including linear and nonlinear, and how to interpret the data...
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Using the Vertical Line Test
In this video, the teacher explains how to use the vertical line test to determine if a graph represents a function or not. They go through four examples and also show how to find a missing value in a table to make it not a function. The...
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Similar Figures, Angle-Angle Similarity and Indirect Measurement
In this video lesson, we explore similar figures and indirect measurement in math. We learn about corresponding sides and angles, how to use similarity to solve problems, and even how to find the height of an object using indirect...
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Identifying Patterns in a Scatter Plot
In this video, the teacher explains how to identify patterns and associations in a scatter plot using a standardized math test question as an example. The viewer is guided through each answer choice and taught to recognize outliers,...
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How to Interpret a Graph
In this video, a math teacher demonstrates how to interpret a graph and answer standardized math test questions. The teacher covers topics such as finding the distance a car traveled in a certain amount of time, calculating the average...
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Comparing Mean and Mean Absolute Deviation
This video reviews a math test prep question on comparing mean and mean absolute deviation (MAD) using line plots to record the number of whales seen on morning and afternoon whale watch trips. The teacher explains how to find the mean...
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Analytical and Expository Thesis Statements
In this video, we take a look at the analytical and expository thesis statements and compare them to the argumentative thesis statement. The purpose of your paper will determine your thesis statement. Examples are given.
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ADVANCED LESSON PART 1: How to Reduce the Adverb Clause
In today’s video we’ll continue with our lesson on Reduced Adverb or Adverbial Clauses. This is an advanced lesson so students will need to be familiar with the present and past participle as well as the perfect aspect of verbs. This...
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Conjunctive Adverbs: Transition Words, Connectors, Linkers and Interrupters
You probably already know that adverbs are words that modify adjectives, verbs, other adverbs, phrases, and entire sentences. And conjunctive adverbs, also called adverbial conjunctions, connectors, connective adverbs, linkers, linking...
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Determining Equivalent Expressions Using Like Terms
In this video, the teacher explains how to identify equivalent expressions using like terms while solving a standardized math test question. The focus is on combining like terms and simplifying the expression to find the answer choice...
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Structural Features of Text | Literary & Expository | Improve Your Reading Comprehension Skills
Recognizing text structure will help you be a better reader. Once you are familiar with the text's organizational pattern, you can make predictions as you read and form a mental map. In this lesson, we cover eight elements or structure...
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How to Identify a Solution Set for Linear Inequalities
This video teaches how to graph a system of linear inequalities to find a solution. The teacher explains how to graph each inequality and how to determine the overlapping area where both inequalities intersect.
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How to Find Angles Formed by Parallel Lines and a Transversal
In this video, the teacher explains how to find the measures of angles formed by parallel lines and a transversal. They use the properties of supplementary angles, alternate interior angles, and the triangle sum theorem to solve for the...
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How to Choose the Most Random Survey
In this video, the teacher explains how to choose the best random survey to determine the average number of items bought by shoppers in a grocery store's express checkout lane between 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM. The teacher walks through four...
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Is it a Function? Determining Unique Outputs
In this math lesson, the teacher discusses the concept of a function and uses a table to demonstrate how adding an ordered pair can affect whether or not the relationship between X and Y is a function. The viewer is asked to determine if...
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Finding Slope Between Two Points Challenge Day #4
This video will review/introduce the concept of finding slope between two points. This is the fourth of five videos, a 5 day challenge, to build proficiency finding the slope of a line using two points. We will use the formula and...
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Finding Slope Between Two Points Challenge Day #3
This video will review/introduce the concept of finding slope between two points. This is the third of five videos, a 5 day challenge, to build proficiency finding the slope of a line using two points. We will use the formula and...
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Indefinite and Definite English Articles: A, AN, & THE
An article is a word that defines a noun. Therefore, an article is technically an adjective. Without articles, we wouldn’t be able to refer to specific or particular nouns or to non-specific or non-particular nouns. This is because...