Resources for Review

Smartboard Notes

Review of GCF and LCM (28 kb)

Finding a percent of a number (28 kb)

Books

Your class books should be your first resource when you have a question. These include:

The Algebra Bridge notebook (from the Key to Algebra series); and

the Algebra Survival Guide

Both of these books break down key Algebra concepts, and explain them with visual, symbolic and language-based examples.

You may also enjoy Danica McKellar’s series of math-help books, including:

Hot X: Algebra Exposed; and

Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who’s the Boss

These books are available in area bookstores and online at amazon.com.

Websites

Basic Algebra definitions: http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/definitions.html

http://www.khanacademy.org/
(These videos give you a great way to review key concepts. The narrator is an MIT-graduate who explains things very well in a conversational voice. To find specific Algebra videos, just scroll down below the images on the home page, and look over the large list of algebra links).

http://mathforum.org/library/topics/basic_algebra/

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/

http://www.coolmath.com/algebra/