Information and Links for Intermediate Algebra

Tom Harrison, SVCC

SVCC Math Department

Practice Compass test

Online practice questions

graphpaper

LaTeX links

Common Errors in College Mathematics

How to Read Mathematics

WomenTech e-Mail Discussion Group

Completing the square, a geometric perspective

Completing the Square: Solving Quadratic Equations

MathForum

The MathFAQ

Understanding Algebraic Factoring

Conic sections - the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola

These are just for fun

Planarity, a game

The Free Rice vocabulary quiz

Penrose tiling

At Jim Loy's Mathematics Page, you can vote for your favorite rectangle, or see why there are no uninteresting numbers.

If the IRS had discovered the quadratic formula (in pdf format).

Foolproof:A Sampling of Mathematical Folk Humor(pdf format)

Mathpuzzle.com

Recreational Mathematics

How to find a square root

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