Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Algebra

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1.1 Real Numbers and Properties

http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fractions/FractionsCalc.html

This page contains a fraction calculator that defines whether a fraction terminates or repeats and will show as many decimal places as you request.

http://www.intmath.com/Numbers/Numbers-intro.php

This page contains lessons and extension ideas on number sets.

http://regentsprep.org/regents/math/math-topic.cfm?TopicCode=realnum

This page defines basic number properties and offers hints for remembering them. The page also includes practice.

http://www.college-cram.com/study/algebra/presentations/96

This page contains an interactive application of each property.

1.2 Solving Equations and Inequalities

http://www.math.com/school/subject2/lessons/S2U3L1GL.html

This page offers an explanation of solving equations and practice.

http://www.aaaknow.com/equ.htm

This page contains lessons on solving all types of equations and inequalities.

http://www.freemathhelp.com/Lessons/PreAlgebra_Solving_Equations_and_Inequalities_BB.htm

This page has a computer generated lecture and notes on solving multistep equations.

http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspResourcesForCourse&CourseID=216

This page contains several different gizmos to practice solving equations and inequalities. This website requires Shockwave Player to run some of its features.

http://www.xpmath.com/forums/arcade.php?categoryid=4

This page contains games that involve solving equations.

1.3  Absolute Value Equations and Inequalities

http://www.themathpage.com/alg/absolute-value.htm

This page contains a lesson on absolute value equations and inequalities.

http://algebralab.net/studyaids/studyaid.aspx?file=Algebra2_1-7.xml

This page contains a brief explanation and practice on solving absolute value equations and inequalities.

http://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/math_help/problem_list?id=minialg1gt_4_1

This page contains absolute value practice problems of varying levels with step-by-step tutoring to help students through each one.

http://www.quia.com/cb/37004.html

This page contains a jeopardy-like one or two-player game on solving absolute value equations
and inequalities.

1.4 Rate of Change and Linear Equations

http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap6/6.2/

This page contains an interactive applet to study rate of change. This website requires Java to run some of its features.

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Algebra/stress.html

This page contains a lesson on rate of change with a real life example.

http://www.terragon.com/tkobrien/algebra/topics/slope/slope.html

This page contains a short lesson on slope of a line.

http://education.ti.com/educationportal/activityexchange/activity_detail.do?cid=us&activityid=4419

This page contains a TI activity on rate of change.

1.5 Graphing Linear Equations and Inequalities

http://www.wtamu.edu/academic/anns/mps/math/mathlab/col_algebra/col_alg_tut27_graphline.htm

This page contains a tutorial on graphing linear equations.

http://earthmath.kennesaw.edu/main_site/review_topics/linear_equations.htm

This page contains an interactive applet on linear equations.

http://www.math.com/school/subject2/lessons/S2U4L3GL.html

This page contains explanation and practice with graphing linear equations.

1.6 Scatter Plots

http://regentsprep.org/regents/Math/data/scatter.htm

This page contains a practice problem and directions for creating a scatter plot.

http://exploringdata.cqu.edu.au/sctrplot.htm

This page contains three real world application problems on scatter plots.

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/scatterp.htm

This page contains an explanation and examples of different types of scatter plots.

http://argyll.epsb.ca/jreed/math9/strand4/scatterPlot.htm

This page has an interactive applet for creating scatter plots and for calculating a line of best fit.