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Common Core Algebra II Regents

The new CC Algebra II Regents was given yesterday Wednesday June 1, 2016.
It has not yet been released to the wider world but word has it:

  • very high level of challenge
  • focus on statistics
  • negligible Trig
  • Finance and Medication/dosage applications
  • limit type Precalc/Early Calculus graph questions

New York is extremely ambitious on the Math they think students can learn, the Math teachers can teach and the support parents and siblings can provide.  It will be about 3 more weeks until scores are able to be assigned after the state releases the scaled score.
Here are the Sample Items released by NY last Fall: 2015SampleItemsAII

Til then best wishes to all students taking the Algebra 2 Trig Regents on June 17 and to all students on their finals and Regents!!

 

 

Get the Math and Points Aug 2014 CC Alg I #11

Aug 14 CC Algebra 1 11

Aug 2014 11 yAug 2014 11 table

Look at the table for the y values from x = 2 to x = 6
The points are:
(2,0)
(3,2)
(4,4)
(5,6)
(6,8)
Notice that the lowest y value is 0 and the highest is 8.

PS the way this question is written you do not have to know that range means the y values and domain means the x values as all of the answer choices have “y”
If you do need to remember this:
x comes before y in the alphabet and
domain comes before range!!

Aug 2014 CC Alg I 11 graph

Get the Math and the Points Aug 2014 CC Alg I #7

Aug 14 CC Algebra 1 7We are looking for the point out of the four listed that lies in the double hatched area on the right lower part of the graph.  (below the dotted line and above the solid line).
Be mindful of how (7,0) and (0,7) differ
Can use the 2nd Draw menu:  It can barely be seen on the x-axis but check out the graph below carefully and you will see a dot at (7,0).  See the double hatched area above!
That’s it — 2 more points :)