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Oswego City School District: The Commercial Revolution
Read here about the time in European history leading into the Renaissance. It is known as the Commercial Revolution, or the emergence of trade, capitalism and working class parties, and unions.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Direct Variation
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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Regents Exam Prep Center: Midpoint of a Line Segment
Examples for using the midpoint formula are given at this site.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Activity for Combinations
A lesson, practice activity, and teacher resource for exploring combinations using six photographs of dogs.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Graphing Parabolas
Works through an example to show how to graph a parabola. Also shows what a positive and negative axis of symmetry looks like.
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Oswego City School District: Speed and Velocity
This animated tutorial illustrates distance and displacement to define speed and velocity.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Absolute Value Equations
The concept of absolute value equations is explained and then explored through several examples. Tips and suggestions are offered as to the common pitfalls to avoid. An all-class activity is also explained for the teacher to engage the...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Permeability
A good visual introduction to permeability, comparing the magnetic permeabilities of air and iron. This site provides a good conceptual introduction to this topic.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Kirchhoff's First Law
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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Regents Exam Prep Center: Kirchhoff's Second Law
This site provides a small definition of Kirchhoff's Second Law as well as illustrations & animations that show how this law works.
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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: Dividing a Polynomial by a Monomial or Binomial
Dividing polynomials by monomials or binomials is made easy with a teacher lesson explanation, a practice activity for the student, and a hands-on cryptic cube activity for reinforcing the lesson.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Scientific Notation
Dealing with very small or very large numbers can be tedious. Scientific notation helps simplify the process and this tutorial teaches students scientific notation with multiple examples, practice problems, calculator tips, and two...
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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: Conditional: If, Then
At this website, learn terms "Conditional," and "Implication," and their relationship to mathematics and logic. Includes examples of "If, then," sentences that are both "True," and "False," as well as a "Truth table."
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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.