Subject Guides: Math Survival Guide: Algebra

Online Resources

Beginning Algebra at Virtual Math Lab (West Texas A&M University) - Opens in a new window
Written tutorials and practice tests covering a wide range of beginner algebra topics.
Negative numbers and coordinate plane (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on negative number basics, adding and subtracting negative numbers, multiplying and dividing negative numbers, and absolute value.
Factors and multiples (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on divisibility tests, divisibility factors, prime numbers, prime factorization, least common multiple, and greatest common factor.
Decimals (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on conceptualizing decimals and place notation, regrouping, comparing, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals, and working with percentages.
Fractions (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on conceptualizing decimals and place notation, regrouping, comparing, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals, as well as working with percentages.
Ratios, rates, proportions (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on ratios and proportions, rates, and unit conversions.
Exponents, radicals, and scientific notation (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on square roots, cube roots, exponent properties, negative and fractional exponents, scientific notation, orders of magnitude, and computing with scientific notation.
Arithmetic properties (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on place value, rational and irrational numbers, the order of operations, the distributive property, arithmetic properties, and rounding and regrouping whole numbers.
Measurement (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on area, perimeter, and volume, as well as sample word problems.

Beginning Algebra at Virtual Math Lab (West Texas A&M University) - Opens in a new window
Written tutorials and practice tests covering a wide range of beginner algebra topics.
Foundations (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on negative numbers, absolute value, exponents, square roots, the order of operations, decimals, fractions, percentages, the perimeter and area of triangles, and the circumference and area of circles.
Algebraic expressions (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on variables and expressions, manipulating expressions, and algebraic expressions with fractions.
Linear equations and inequalities (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on solving basic equations, linear equation word problems, linear inequalities, ratios and proportions, and direct and inverse variation.
Graphing lines and slope (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on graphing on the coordinate plane, solutions and graphs of two-variable equations, graphing with intercepts, the slope of a line, graphing linear equations in slope-intercept form, and graphing linear inequalities.
System of equations (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials and word problems on solving systems of equations.
Expressions with exponents (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on negative exponents, exponent properties, scientific notation, and computing with scientific notation.
Quadratics and polynomials (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on factoring simple expressions, multiplying binomials, factoring quadratic expressions, factoring special products, solving quadratics by factoring, and polynomial basics.
Equations and geometry (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on angles with triangles and polygons, triangle similarity, and the Pythagorean theorem.

Intermediate Algebra at Virtual Math Lab (West Texas A&M University) - Opens in a new window
Written tutorials and practice tests covering a wide range of intermediate algebra topics.
Algebra I Course
Algebra foundations, solving equations & inequalities, working with units, linear equations & graphs, forms of linear equations, systems of equations, inequalities, functions, sequences, absolute value & piecewise functions, exponents & radicals, exponential growth & decay, quadratics: multiplying & factoring, quadratic functions & equations, irrational numbers, and creativity in algebra.

College Algebra at Virtual Math Lab (West Texas A&M University) - Opens in a new window
Written tutorials and practice tests covering a wide range of college algebra topics.
Algebra 2
Polynomial Arithmetic, Complex Numbers, Polynomial Factorization, Polynomial Division, Polynomial Graphs, Rational Exponents and Radicals, Exponential Models, Logarithms, Transformation of Functions, Equations, Trigonometry, and Modeling.

College Algebra at Virtual Math Lab (West Texas A&M University) - Opens in a new window
Written tutorials and practice tests covering a wide range of college algebra topics.
Matrix transformations (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
VIdeo tutorials on functions and linear transformations, transformations and matrix multiplication, inverse functions and transformations, finding inverses and determinants, and the transpose of a matrix.
Alternate coordinate systems (bases) (Khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on orthogonal complements, orthogonal projections, change of basis, orthonormal bases and the Gram-Schmidt process, and eigenvectors, eigenvalues, and eigenspaces.
Vectors and spaces (khan Academy) - Opens in a new window
Video tutorials on vectors, linear combinations and spans, linear dependence and independence, subspaces and the basis for a subspace, vector dot and cross products, matrices for solving systems by elimination, null space and column space.