Ch 7: NY Regents - Analytical Geometry: Help and Review
About This Chapter
Who's it for?
Anyone who needs help learning or mastering geometry material for the NY Regents Exam will benefit from taking this course. There is no faster or easier way to learn high school geometry. Among those who would benefit are:
- Students who have fallen behind in understanding the midpoint formula, the distance formula, the parts of a graph, or slope
- Students who struggle with learning disabilities or learning differences, including autism and ADHD
- Students who prefer multiple ways of learning math (visual or auditory)
- Students who have missed class time and need to catch up
- Students who need an efficient way to learn about analytical geometry for the NY Regents Exam
- Students who struggle to understand their teachers
- Students who attend schools without extra math learning resources
How it works:
- Find videos in our course that cover what you need to learn or review.
- Press play and watch the video lesson.
- Refer to the video transcripts to reinforce your learning.
- Test your understanding of each lesson with short quizzes.
- Verify you're ready by completing the Analytical Geometry chapter exam.
Why it works:
- Study Efficiently: Skip what you know, review what you don't.
- Retain What You Learn: Engaging animations and real-life examples make topics easy to grasp.
- Be Ready on Test Day: Use the Analytical Geometry chapter exam to be prepared for the NY Regents Exam.
- Get Extra Support: Ask our subject-matter experts any analytical geometry question. They're here to help!
- Study With Flexibility: Watch videos on any web-ready device.
Students will review:
This chapter helps students review the concepts in an analytical geometry unit of a standard high school geometry course. Topics covered include:
- Parts of a graph
- Cartesian coordinate system
- Midpoint formula
- Distance formula
- The equation of a line
- Geometric proofs

1. What Are the Different Parts of a Graph?
Being able to read a graph isn't just vital for an algebra class. Graphs and charts are used everywhere! We'll take a crash course on the basic x/y plane used in algebra and the fundamental vocab you need.

2. The Cartesian Coordinate System: Plotting Points & Graphing Lines
Watch this video lesson to see how useful the Cartesian coordinate system is. Learn how points are labeled and how you can plot points and graph lines using the system.

3. How to Use The Midpoint Formula
The formula for the midpoint of a line segment will tell you how to find the middle of any line segment on the x, y plane. Learn about this formula and see how it is used to find the midpoint of a line segment.

4. How to Use The Distance Formula
You can't always rely on your smartphone to tell you how far you need to travel to get from point A to point B. The distance formula will tell you the distance between any two points on a graph. In this lesson, you'll learn where it comes from and how to use it!

5. Calculating the Slope of a Line: Point-Slope Form, Slope-Intercept Form & More
Being able to calculate the slope of a line is a very useful skill to have. Why? Watch this video lesson to find out and learn how to find the slope when working with various equations and various lines.

6. Geometric Proofs for Polygons
Watch this video lesson to learn why it is important for you to learn how to do formal proofs in geometry. Also learn how to set up a proof and how to successfully execute one.

7. Taxicab Geometry: History & Formula
In this lesson you will discover a new type of geometry based on a different way of measuring distance between points. We'll give a little background on this strange geometry and then define the distance formula with plenty of examples.
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Other Chapters
Other chapters within the NY Regents Exam - Geometry: Help and Review course
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- NY Regents - Logic in Mathematics: Help and Review
- NY Regents - Introduction to Geometric Figures: Help and Review
- NY Regents - Similar Polygons: Help and Review
- NY Regents - Quadrilaterals: Help and Review
- NY Regents - Circular Arcs and Circles: Help and Review
- NY Regents - Triangles and Congruency: Help and Review
- NY Regents - Parallel Lines and Polygons: Help and Review
- NY Regents - Geometric Solids: Help and Review
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