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Regents Exam Prep Center: General "Transformation" Vocabulary
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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Regents Exam Prep Center: Basic Constructions
This site gives a few tips when using a compass for the optimal drawing techniques.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Error in Measurement
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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Regents Exam Prep Center: Positive, Negative, and Zero Exponents
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...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Working on a Rescue Team Lab
Your students 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 plane?...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Definition of a Relation and a Function
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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Regents Exam Prep Center: Parallel Through a Point
This step-by-step demonstration teaches students to construct a line parallel to another through a given point.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Conjunction: And
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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Regents Exam Prep Center: Disjunction: Or
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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Regents Exam Prep Center: Biconditional: If and Only If
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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Regents Exam Prep Center: Working With Logic
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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Regents Exam Prep Center: Practicing With Evaluating Expressions
Several exercises are given to practice evaluating expressions. Answers are provided for students to check their work.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Composition of Transformations
Learn what happens when two or more transformation are combined. You get a composition of transformations, and this resource offers a definition, example notation, and information on renaming a composition.
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Regents Prep: Global History: Neolithic Revolution
The Neolithic Revolution created a shift in how people lived. Humans began settling down into villages and establishing methods of agriculture and domesticating animals to relinquish the need for nomadic lifestyles. Read a short summary...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Linear Inequalities
A complete review of linear inequalities interval notation, and compound inequalities. Several applications of the compound inequalities are given along with solutions and explanations. Links to sites assisting with graphing calculator...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Formulas for Angles in Circles
Formulas and illustrations show the different kinds of angles created by intersecting tangents, secants, radii, and in combination.