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Regents Exam Prep Center: Multiplication Involving Trinomials
This site shows you how to multiply a binomial and a trinomial using the vertical and horizontal methods. You can also see the steps necessary to cube a binomial.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Simplifying Radicals
Use this site to learn how to simplify radicals, even when the radical is not a perfect square. These examples will be a guide to you in simplifying all kinds of radicals.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Types of Sentences
What is "Logic"? What is a "Mathematical sentence"? This website provides definitions of both of these terms and defines examples of mathematical sentences ("open sentence" and "closed sentence") and provides examples of each. Use the...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Exponents (Powers)
A collection of lessons, practice activities, and a teacher resource for reviewing exponents and the various rules associated with them.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Algebra Representation
Students will get help translating sentences into algebraic expressions. A practice page is included, and the teacher resource page includes guidelines for a Bingo game.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Study of Quadrilaterals
An interesting technique is used for student viewers to learn about quadrilaterals. A viewer can meet the quadrilateral family by clicking on a link and characters will introduce themselves and tell you about their distinguishing...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Central Tendency: Mean, Mode, Median
This tutorial discusses mean, median, and mode. It introduces the frequency table and gives several examples. A practice page is included and a teacher resource page that contains an activity using manipulatives.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Statistics: Percentiles and Quartiles
Use this site to learn how to divide data into quartiles in this tutorial. You'll need a calculator to do the practice problems. The teacher resource page contains a warm-up exercise for use before a quartile lesson.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Length of a Line Segment (Distance)
Use the coordinate plane and Pythagorean theorem to determine the length of a line segment. Click on the "Topic Index" to find a related practice exercise and teacher resource.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Theorems and Postulates for Geometry
Here is a partial list of theorems, postulates, and properties.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Working With Line Reflections
This Regents Prep site contains numerous problems concerning line reflections. Each multiple choice problem contains a short explanation.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Shuffling Cards to Practice Transformations
This Regents Prep site offers an interesting classroom lesson for transformations on a coordinate plane using flash cards.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Closure Property
This site gives a very clear discussion on the topic of closure of sets over an operation with many examples.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: The Series Circuit
Explains how a series circuit works, accompanied by an animation. Lists the rules and formulas that apply to a series circuit.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Algebraic Fractions
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.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Mutually Exclusive & Independent Events
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...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Unit Circle
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....
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Area of a Triangle and Parallelogram Using Trig
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...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Algebra 2: Definition of Inverse Function
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...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Radical Equations
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...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Styles of Proof
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.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Bisect a Line Segment and an Angle
This step-by-step tutorial teaches students how to construct a bisector of a segment and the bisector of an angle.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Copy a Line Segment and an Angle
This site provides a step-by-step method to construct congruent segments and angles with a straight edge and compass.
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Regents Test Prep Center Perpendiculars
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.