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ACT, Inc., 2007
This booklet is intended to help students do their best on the ACT. It summarizes general test-taking strategies, describes the content of each test, provides specific tips for each, and lets students know what they can expect on test day. Included in this booklet are complete practice tests--"retired" ACT questions that were administered to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Test Wiseness
Goodman-Petrushka, Sharon; Roitberg, Yael – 1988
This booklet contains 11 modules (290 multiple-choice items) designed for use in the first course of a three-course calculus sequence using the textbook "Calculus with Analytic Geometry" (Dennis G. Zill). In each module, relevant sections of the textbook are identified for users. It can, however, be used in conjunction with any calculus textbook.…
Descriptors: Analytic Geometry, Calculus, College Mathematics, Higher Education
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Data Processing Branch. – 1986
This is a sample of the final test for students in mathematics at the sixth-grade level in Alberta (Canada) schools. The test contains multiple-choice items and is divided into two sections. Section 1 contains 55 items related to numeration, operations and properties, measurement, geometry graphing, and problem solving. Section 2 consists of five…
Descriptors: Computation, Elementary School Mathematics, Foreign Countries, Geometry
2003
Math Sense consists of five books that develop from basic to more advanced math skills. This document contains a placement test used with Math Sense to help students and their teachers decide into which Math Sense book to begin working. The placement test is divided into six parts, each consisting of 10 to 22 problems, and is based on exit skill…
Descriptors: Algebra, Curriculum Design, Evaluation, Geometry
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1986
This test for third grade students in Alberta, Canada, consists of two sections. Section I is divided into two parts: Part A has 25 questions covering numeration, geometry, and graphing, and part B has 25 questions covering operations and properties, measurement, and problem-solving strategies. Section II consists of four basic-fact tests in…
Descriptors: Computation, Elementary School Mathematics, Foreign Countries, Geometry
Rule, Audrey C., Ed.; Grueniger, Erika, Ed.; Hingre, Denise, Ed.; McKenna, Kyle, Ed.; Williams, Rebecca, Ed. – Online Submission, 2006
A study was conducted with forty-seven preservice childhood (elementary) education teachers (42 F, 5 M) enrolled in two mathematics methods classes taught by the same instructor to determine the effect of these college students making curriculum materials appropriate for upper elementary students on the preservice teachers' knowledge of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Instruction
Mercer County Community Coll., Trenton, NJ. – 1992
This document offers instructional materials for a 32-hour course on math operations involving graphs/statistics, measurement (English and metric), geometry, exponential notation, and scientific notation as applied in the workplace. The course was part of a workplace literacy project developed by Mercer County Community College (New Jersey) and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Coding, Computation, Decimal Fractions
Safford, Kathy – 1992
This document offers instructional materials for a 60-hour course on math operations involving decimals, fractions, proportions, statistics, probability, measurement, geometry, and linear algebra as applied in the workplace. The course was part of a workplace literacy project developed by Mercer County Community College (New Jersey) and its…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Algebra, Computation, Decimal Fractions
Springfield Public Schools, MO. – 1987
This document provides a description of the competitions involved in the Mathematics Olympics held in the Springfield Public Schools (Missouri). It provides descriptions of the team events (which involved a scavenger hunt, computers, and computations) and the individual events (which involved applied geometry, calculators, conversion from ratio to…
Descriptors: Calculators, Competition, Computation, Computer Uses in Education
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education. – 1987
This unit is intended to teach estimation skills in such a way as to be relevant and useful to students as they apply them in various problem-solving activities. The teaching activities feature the earth, exploration into space, and the other worlds in the solar system. The teacher's guide contains four modules. Module I suggests the use of…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Estimation (Mathematics), Geometric Concepts, Geometry