Name: ______Algebra Midterm Exam Review Guide

Integrated Algebra Midterm Exam

Tuesday Jan 22nd 8 – 11am

in the cafeteria

We have studied 7 units thus far. All topics studied in class will be on the exam. The exam models your end of the year Integrated Algebra Regents Exam exactly. Meaning, all directions on the exam, all point values, number of questions, and format are exactly the same as the NYS Integrated Algebra Regents exam in June. The exact same reference sheet and scrap graph paper that is given on the June Regents exam will be included in this midterm. So, your exam will consist of exactly 39 questions. 30 Multiple choice questions worth 2 pts each, no partial credit, 3 part two questions worth 2 points each, 3 part three questions worth 3 points each, and 3 part four questions, worth 4 points each, partial credit can be given for parts 2, 3, & 4 and work and/or explanation are required for full credit.

There is a lot of information that you must know in order to be successful on this midterm. The units and topics are listed on the reverse side of this paper. Become familiar with them. Remember everyone's goal is mastery, which is an 85. You must provide yourself time outside of class to prepare, review, study and learn everything from the first 7 units of our course.

Take responsibility for your success. Prepare yourself for this exam. Put in both time and effort. It is suggested that you prepare starting now. You should be reviewing, studying and re-learning for at least30 min every night from now until the exam and for at least 2 hours on Mon. Jan 23rd. This is an exam. It covers a lot of material. It is expected that you need to relearn some of it and therefore you need to make the time to do so.

Prepare for the exam by carefully (done with care) practicing all review questions (recall being thorough, means coming to completion, do ALL questions not just a sampling of the questions) and carefully checking your work. It is suggested that you also review your unit tests and make sure you can correctly answer every question on those tests. Use your text as a resource for examples to follow.

Regentsprep.org is also an excellent resource for review. Choose the Integrated Algebra course. From regentsprep.org we have covered unit 1&2 (except for ratio, proportion & percent), unit 3 (except factoring), unit 4 (except quadratics and exponential decay), units 5, 6, & 7(except parabolas), and units 10 & 11.

Other information about exam week.:

You only come to school at the times you have a midterm exam. There are school bus pick up and drop off spots around the district for midday pick up and drop off. See the bulletin board in the main hallway for that information or ask in the office. You may arrange your own transportation of course. Our Algebra exam will likely take about 2 hours, you may leave early, but not before 10:00 am. Be informed and ask questions of your teachers.

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Topics and vocabulary to master:

Sets and Properties: Unit 1

associative, commutative, distributive, closure, identity, inverse, and zero properties

set builder notation, with braces, not parentheses, {2,4,6,8}

interval notation, with inclusive indicated by [ and exclusive indicated by ),

[4,8) means everything from 4 to 8 including 4, and up to, but not including 8. (Show this on a number line.)

element € , union U , intersection ∩, subset , complement A' or , empty set Ø.

Number sets, real, rational, irrational, integers, whole numbers, counting (natural) numbers

Venn diagrams – and union and intersection

Solving Equations and Inequalities: Unit 2

writing equations from word problems

solving equations – combining like terms, distributing, fractional coefficients,

literal equations – solving for one of many variables ex. A = p + prt solve for t...

representing inequalities with a number line.

Graphing Systems of Equations and Inequalities, functions: Unit 3

Graph a line

identify/find slope and y – intercept of a line

write an equation for a line

slope intercept method, table method, point slope method

parallel lines ( have the same ______)

graphing absolute values

graph an inequality (solid or dashed lin?)

solve systems of 2 equations by graphing

solve systems if inequalities and identify a point in the solution set.

functions

Domain & range

Probability: Unit 4

sample space

permutations

factorial

complement

empirical probablility (experimental probability – what actually occurred during a trial)

probability of independent or dependent events

fair vs unfair (equally likely)

Statistics: Unit 5

bias

quantitative vs qualitative data

bivariate vs univariate data

mean, median, mode, range

box and whisker plot

5 statistical summary

quartiles

histogram

cumulative frequency histogram

scatterplot

percentiles

correlation

Radicals: Unit 6

perfect squares

square root (radical sign)

simplifying radicals

add, subtract, multiply & divide, like and unlike radicals

Trigonometry: Unit 7

reference angle

opposite, adjacent, hypotenuse

Sine, Cosine, Tangent of an angle

Solve for one angle – when given 2 sides

Solve for one side – when given one side and one angle