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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Equation of a Sphere
Learn about how many points determine a unique sphere and how many points are needed to create a family of spheres. Dr. Rob works out the equation of a family of spheres given three points and then the equation of a unique sphere can be...
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Distance From a Point to a Plane
Use this site to findout how to find the distance from a point to a plane.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math Alternate Exterior Angles
Dr. Math at the Math Forum offers a way of remembering alternate exterior and alternate interior angles by looking at the words and realize what they say and apply it to the picture.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Intersecting Angles
This site from The Math Forum of Drexel University provides a question posed by a students with a response. The question involves the points of intersection of two intersecting angles.
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The Math Forum: Volume
At this site from the Math Forum, Dr. Math explains the concept of volume using area as the base of information. The explanation includes some examples and is worth using for information on the subject.
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The Math Forum: K 12 Math Problems, Puzzles, Tips & Tricks
At this site us these tips & tricks to help students become better mental mathematicians.
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The Math Forum: Cylinder Formulas
This site from the Math Forum defines both a circular cylinder and a right circular cylinder. Pictures of each are provided. Formulas are provided.
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The Math Forum: Geometry Discussion Board
Math Forum provides a discussion board for geometry topics. The geometry topics are for pre college topics. This site may be found enjoyable for those who like to think about math topics at times other than school.
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The Math Forum: Bricks Activity, Teacher Lesson Plan
Builders of brick walls need to be especially aware of fault lines which can easily lead to the collapse of the wall. Students are challenged, here, to use polyminoes to design patterns for brick walls which do not contain fault lines....
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Equation for Undefined Slope
This site gives the equation for a vertical line which passes through 8 on the x axis. The Dr. explains why the equation is what it is by giving a more general equation for a line than y = mx + b.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Line Problems
This site answers many general questions about linear equations and their graphs. A student posed several questions to Dr. Math regarding lines and their equations. Question number 4 is about the equation of a horizontal line and Dr....
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Quadratic Function (Changing Coefficients)
The Dr. gives information about a method for deciding how changing the coefficients of a quadratic function affects a graph. The page also leaves some questions for the reader to ponder.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Faq: Closure
This site explains closure and has a link to a response from Dr. math regarding this topic. The site explains why the real numbers are closed under the operation of multiplication. The site gives an example of an operation which the real...
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Rhombus
This is a very brief look at the rhombus, which is a quadrilateral shape with four equal sides. Features include a JavaSketchpad that allows you to manipulate the shape.
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The Math Forum: Helping With Homework
What is the balance between actually doing the homework or refusing to help? Here are some possible answers from math teachers.
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The Math Forum: Geometry Through Art: Inscribed Triangles
This resource contains examples of triangles inscribed in circles to form art.
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The Math Forum: Conic Basics
A written description of the different conic sections is described at this site from the Math Forum. The description identifies the importance of the eccentricity in determining the type of conic.
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The Math Forum: Everyday Appearances of Conics
Just getting started with conics and you need some examples of where they occur? Check out Dr. Math's reply to such a question.
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The Math Forum: Perimeter of an Oval
What seemingly ought to be straghtforward is not always the case. Dr. Math, in reply to a class question, points this out when discussing how to find the perimeter of an ellipse. Some links to websites that help with the computation are...
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The Math Forum: Vector Addition: Algebra
Illustration and description of how to add vectors using algebra.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Dividing a Whole Number by a Fraction
Learn the steps of dividing a whole number by a fraction.
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The Math Forum: Polyhedra Nets Paper
Contains six examples of polyhedra nets (cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, cubosctahedron).
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The Math Forum: Vector Length
Describes how to use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the length, or magnitude, of a vector.
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The Math Forum: Unit Vectors
Definition of a unit vector with an illustration.