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Take a look at examples of exponential functions, such as Compound Interest and Nuclear Radiation. Find out how a growing bank account and radioactive decay deal with exponential functions. Did you know that exponential functions never equal zero?

In this mathematical video learn all about inequalities on a number line.

There are other roots we need to learn besides square roots.

Learn how to use a Tree Diagram to find the prime numbers of a composite number. Click for details.

A comprehensive review of important, basic geometry concepts. Lines, points, angles, planes, space, proofs, and more!

Geometry basics-- let's start thinking about thinking. Did you know that most of what we study in geometry today is called Euclidean geometry? Let's start studying the relationships between shapes and its relationships... "visually."

Learn about the standard form of polynomials-- important, general concepts and terms to understand. Here's a fun, out-of-this-world review.

Shortcuts! Shortcuts! Two helpful shortcuts on how to factor quadratic equations. Save trial-and-error testing time on tests.

As quadratic equations are the product of two binomial factors, learn how to reverse the FOIL process and find the real root.

Why are Quadratic equations called so if their degree level is two? Doesn't quad mean four??

Learn about linear equations and slope, and how to put all these into a slope intercept form!

Check out this real-life example of how algebraic functions work, including how to do a vertical line test!

A little history on the puzzling universal arithmetic that replaces numbers with letters.

Let's learn to find X in different equations and in some examples.

FAP557: Free Stuff Monday, Damning Lender Report from the Senate, Homeland Security Money, PAB, Uncle Seth Student Financial Aid News + Back in the office and behind the mic - love the good mic :) + BankNet360: Subprime borrowers faced more delinquencies and foreclosures during the first quarter compared to the previous quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association of America. + Nearly 19% of all subprime loans were either delinquent by more than 30 days or in foreclosure during 1Q 2007, up from 17.9% recorded during 4Q 2006. About 140,000 subprime mortgages entered the process of foreclosure during the quarter; nearly 20,000 of those were in California. + The report also showed that the troubles in the subprime market have not yet spread to the overall prime mortgage market. At the end of March, 6.12% of all mortgages were either delinquent or in foreclosure, up slightly from 5.39% at the end of the year. + Mortgage rates this week reached their highest level in almost a year. The national average for a 30-year mortgage was 6.74 percent, up from 6.53 percent last week. + If you're financing a college education with mortgage products, seriously consider a Parent PLUS Loan from ParentPLUSLoan.com - no collateral required + Inside Higher Ed: Emerson College, in Massachusetts, has placed its dean of enrollment on leave Friday — the day after a U.S. Senate report found that he had received $36,000 from a loan company that Emerson recommended to students, The Boston Globe reported. According to the report, Daniel Pinch had a consulting contract with Collegiate Funding Services, which is now part of J.P. Morgan Chase. Pinch told the Globe that he didn’t think he had done anything wrong, and that he would cooperate with an investigation now going on. + NASFAA: Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a Committee staff report on marketing practices in the FFEL program and questionable behavior between student loan providers and schools last week. This is first in what may be a series of investigative documents examining evidence of abuses in the FFEL Program. + The Report on Marketing Practices in the Federal Family Education Loan Program details benefits and compensation provided to aid administrators in return for preferential treatment that can lead to increased loan volume. The report comes just one week before the Senate Education Committee is scheduled to take up the Higher Education Access Reconciliation Act and The Higher Education Amendments of 2007. + Pretty damning conclusions - read the full PDF for details + I'm going to Podcasters Across Borders this weekend! + Scholarship Update + Chronicle: While university researchers are scrambling to find grants, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security can't seem to give its money away. + The department has nearly $2 million dollars to pay for research into security-related video technology, and it hasn't been getting many takers, according to Jennifer White of the Touchstone Consulting Group, which is supervising the grant application process. For the last round of funding, she says, they had only 18 inquiries and nine actual proposals. "And only two of them were deemed acceptable, leaving us with more than $1-million that we couldn't give out." + They hope to do better this time around. The money is supposed to go for research into "interoperability": systems that can move video data from one agency to another or from one type of technology to another. The deadline for applications is June 25. + Details at our free college scholarship search site Free Stuff Monday + Stick Em Up + Quicksilver tutorial for Google Calendar + Quicksilver tutorial for Twitter + Google Gas Gadget + Expensr + PodCamp Europe Gift Bag Promo + Podcasters Across Borders Podsafe Music + Uncle Seth, To Be An Angel + Music via the Podsafe Music Network Reminders + Join the Financial Aid Podcast Loyalists on Facebook + Make me your Facebook friend + Buy Virtual Hot Wings, the Matthew Ebel live bootleg album! + Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan.com + Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com + Student loan consolidation at StudentLoanConsolidator.com + FAFSA form tutorials and free help at FAFSAonline.com + Financial Aid Podcast Show Notes at FinancialAidPodcast.com. + The Financial Aid Podcast is a publication of the Student Loan Network. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Email me at financialaidpodcast gmail com, visit http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com, or call 206-350-1208. AIM: FinAidPodcast Add me to your iTunes by visiting http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com/itunes/ Direct MP3 file download: MP3 file Technorati Tags: financial aid financialaidpodcast

FAP522: Scholarship search secret, FFEL vs. Direct Loans, Misbehavior at SLM, Chloe Leigh Student Financial Aid News + From Banknet360: The Missouri Senate passed by a vote of 23-11 Gov. Matt Blunt’s plan to use money from the state’s student loan agency to fund university building projects. The plan now awaits House approval. + The controversial $350 million plan includes new limits on tuition increases, enhanced oversight, and a new scholarship program. Democrats are widely opposed to the plan to sell the assets of the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, which has already set aside $212 million — generated partly by selling loans held by non-Missourians — toward its initial payment of $230 million by Sept. 15. + MOHELA staff believe the agency can sell existing loans, provide the state money, buy new loans, and still maintain low interest rates and loan-forgiveness programs. But critics think the sudden depletion of fund will leave MOHELA incapable of competing with deals offered by competitors. Blunt has been pushing the plan since January 2006. + From Inside Higher Ed: The Higher Education Authority of Missouri, known as Mohela, announced last week that it was forgiving $500 in the students loan debts of each of more than 9,300 freshmen in the state who are Pell Grant recipients. + Minor controversy about Coke sponsoring part of the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, according to Inside Higher Ed. + From NASFAA: The chairmen of the Senate and House education committees continued their investigations into lender practices and U.S. Department of Education officials on Thursday. + Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee accused Nelnet and Sallie Mae of possibly breaking federal law because they may have used "harsh and inappropriate tactics" to collect student loans from borrowers. Kennedy sent letters to the loan companies requesting documents regarding borrowers whose federal loans have entered collection or become delinquent. + Kennedy's aides said they believed Sallie Mae may have tried to collect debts that were not owed, fired employees who attempted to help borrowers and intentionally sent loan bills to incorrect addresses to get borrowers to default, according to the Washington Post. In addition, Kennedy accused the lender of possibly threatening jail time for borrowers that did not pay, and possibly using abusive language and harassing borrowers' families and friends. + If you have a dispute with any federal student loan lender, contact the FSA Ombudsman office. + U.S. Department of Education FSA Ombudsman 830 First Street, NE Fourth Floor Washington, DC 20202-5144 Phone: 1-877-557-2575 Fax: 202-275-0549 Online: http://www.ombudsman.ed.gov/about/contactus.html Scholarship Update + Scholarship search secret today + Search term: "savings bond" scholarship deadline + For parents of younger children than college age + Start finding bond contests and scholarships + When a bond matures, roll it over into a 529 to escape the FAFSA consequences Focus on Financial Aid + FFELP versus Direct Lending + What are the two programs? + Detailed history from StudentLoanFacts.org + Disclosure: this is a lobbying association for FFEL lenders + Which program is better? + Senator Kennedy says Direct Loans are better because they cost the government less money + FFEL lenders say FFEL Loans are better because they provide better benefits to the borrower + Example: if you take out a Stafford loan from the Department of Education, there's a 1% origination fee, so you don't get the full amount of the loan + More often than not, FFEL lenders will waive the fee + Get a Stafford federal student loan from StaffordLoan.com + Example: direct loan consolidation with the government gets you 0.25% off your rate for automatic checking + FFEL consolidation with StudentLoanConsolidator.com gets you 0.25% off your rate for automatic checking, plus 1% off after the first 36 on time payments + On $30,000 in student loans, Direct saves you $1,633 over the life of the loan + We'll save you $6,076 over the life of the loan Podsafe Music + Chloe Leigh, My Everything + Music via the Podsafe Music Network Reminders + Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan.com + Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com + Student loan consolidation at StudentLoanConsolidator.com + FAFSA form tutorials and free help at FAFSAonline.com + Financial Aid Podcast Show Notes at FinancialAidPodcast.com. + The Financial Aid Podcast is a publication of the Student Loan Network. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Email me at financialaidpodcast gmail com, visit http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com, or call 206-350-1208. AIM: FinAidPodcast Add me to your iTunes by visiting http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com/itunes/ Direct MP3 file download: MP3 file Technorati Tags: financial aid financialaidpodcast

FAP519: Conference in review, NASFAA code of conduct, Boston scholarship, Sheila Swift Student Financial Aid News + From NASFAA: In light of the recent attention that has been given to the relationship between postsecondary institutions and student loan providers, NASFAA's Board of Directors spent considerable time at its April 21 - 23 meeting deliberating over the actions that it should take to address these matters. As an outcome, the Board approved a resolution announcing a plan of action to develop its own code of conduct within the next few weeks that will provide its members and their institutions explicit guidance in carrying out the expectations of the NASFAA Statement of Ethical Principles. + Comment from Inside Higher Ed: The aid community and students are not served by these half-measures. The ground is shifting beneath our feet, and NASFAA, like it or not, is our only real shot at explaining to the folks that control the pursestrings what the real story is in financial aid. + I seriously doubt that NASFAA will do anything except enter damage control mode to protect its own, after throwing a few bodies to the wolves. Unfortunately, this means we’ll have to live with the legislative consequences. + We should be explaining (now, while we have the public’s attention) how to make college more affordable to more students. Instead, we are distracted by the media themes of bad schools doing bad deals with bad lenders. (We better address this too, but’s it’s just a sideshow to the serious structural problems with the program.) + The INEVITABLE changes in the status quo will be informed by our contributions as aid professionals. Either we give an honest appraisal of the problems, so our lawmakers can address them more effectively, or we fume about no one understanding this complicated business, try to protect our own bits of turf, and let the lawmakers change the law without our input. + Also from NASFAA: Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sent a letter to higher education institution presidents across the country urging them to establish guidelines for their institution's relationships with lenders. + The letter highlights some of the practices that concern Kennedy, including college officials serving on lender boards and advisory boards, lender stock ownership by college officials, gifts from lenders to college officials, lender staff assisting schools with loan application processing, and college names and emblems placed on lender loan products. + Kennedy encourages institutions to avoid conflicts of interest with student loan lenders and provides schools with guidance for avoiding conflicts of interest. Scholarship Update + Heading back to Boston + AIGA Boston Tim Moore Scholarship + AIGA Boston is honored to offer a scholarship in memory of our colleague, Tim Moore. + Be a junior or senior in an accredited graphic arts program in New England, applying for a semester of study abroad. + An official scholarship application. (Downloadable from the Printing and Publishing Council website, http://www.ppcne.org/scholarships_Moore.html). + Willing to keep a sketchbook of your adventure abroad that will be submitted to the Board of Directors of AIGA Boston to be used at a future date as a possible fundraising tool. + Submit current transcripts, current registration forms from your school along with acceptance documents of your program abroad. + All applications must be submitted no later than April 30, 2007. + $2,500 individual awards + $100,000 total + Details at our free college scholarship search site PESC Conference in Review + Lots of new potentially great technologies coming out + The METEOR system caught my eye as a way for students to be able to view all their loans, federal and private, in one place + The real danger with any of these legislative efforts is unintended consequences. Make federal student loan consolidation difficult and borrowers may turn to private student loan consolidation, which may not be as advantageous. Make marketing to financial aid professionals difficult, and lenders may pull out all the stops to market directly to borrowers, using tactics that make today's aggressive marketing seem tame. Podsafe Music + Sheila Swift, Something Borrowed + Music via the Podsafe Music Network Reminders + Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan.com + Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com + Student loan consolidation at StudentLoanConsolidator.com + FAFSA form tutorials and free help at FAFSAonline.com + Financial Aid Podcast Show Notes at FinancialAidPodcast.com. + The Financial Aid Podcast is a publication of the Student Loan Network. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Email me at financialaidpodcast gmail com, visit http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com, or call 206-350-1208. 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