Phillip Keller, veteran math teacher and SAT tutor, and author of the fabulous The New Math SAT Game Plan: The Strategic Way to Score Higher, has created a great video Going It Alone: Math SAT Prep Without a Tutor or a Course. He covers: What do you need to accomplish? What resources will help you […]
Strategy
SAT Strategy: Keep Going
Lately, my students have been turning back in the middle of the road. It’s shown up a couple of times this week, particularly on this problem which is Test 5, Section 2, Question 12 from the Blue Book. My students see that if three numbers out of […]
Last-minute SAT Strategy: Sleep!
Believe it or not, one of the best things you can do to prepare for the SAT right now is to do…..nothing. Turn off the light and go to sleep. Why? Because more sleep leads to better performance. Junior varsity Teenagers are only getting 6.5 hours of sleep per night, but they need 9.2 hours of […]
Math – Estimating
Estimating is a lost art on the SAT. You can put yourself in an excellent guessing position by estimating the answer on easy and medium questions. I often use this strategy with the plug-the-answers-in strategy. I can quickly eliminate several wrong answers and then only need to check one or two answers to see which […]
Math – Solving Averages Using Rock Piles
My favorite way to solve averages problems is using Phillip Keller’s concept of rock piles from his terrific book The New Math SAT Game Plan: The Strategic Way to Score Higher. (You can download the first three chapters here.) Back to the stone age Let’s say I have 3 piles of rocks. […]
Pronouns: Chocolate or Vanilla?
Pronouns come in different flavors? Yep, they actually do. Technically it’s called pronoun case – pronouns are different when they are used as a subject or an object – but I don’t teach it this way. Here are the rules, if you are interested. I’ve just found that my students fall into a stupor when […]