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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where are people finding good practice problems? Can someone share a link?[/quote]

You can use the AoPS Alcumus tool (https://artofproblemsolving.com/alcumus), as it's completely free and has more than 10 thousand problems with complete solutions to each problem. A few pro tips:

- The problems are more challenging on average than normal questions one sees in school, even in honors/AP classes. But you get to see the full solution to each problem which can help students learn well.
- Due to the above, students should bump the difficulty setting to 'Easy' as a start, (even though the algorithm adapts and will feed tougher problems if they get questions correct, and it will back off if they get stuff wrong).
- An efficient way to practice problems for a test (let's say as an example, you know your school test will have quadratic equations as a topic), is to set the main topic to either 'Algebra' then pick a subtopic related to quadratics and try out some problems. Here's a screenshot showing a partial list of Algebra subtopics (note the multiple subtopics related to quadratics): https://ibb.co/RyPKftc
- There are many many problems in the database for each subtopic; typically between 50-100, and each major topic (i.e Algebra, Geometry, etc) contains around 50-60 subtopics. They will definitely not run out. Also, they should not expect to solve them all successfully because they can get significantly harder (each question in the database is assigned a difficulty level, from 1-25 and the difficulty level of the question is displayed). But seeing the full solution after each question can definitely help with learning and understanding.[/quote]

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