When are we ever gonna use Math? On placement tests!
First click on this to see what students need to know:
https://accuplacer.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/accuplacer-sample-questions-for-students.pdf (ACCUPLACER placement test sample questions)
The link above should be required reading (& writing & arithmetic) for all middle and high school students, their teachers, principals and families.
If high schools can share this information and help students ace their placement tests, then students can ace their placement tests, avoid remedial classes and take actual college courses.
Up to 75% of students end up in remediation and more than half the courses offered are at the remedial level.
Credit:Prof Barbara Lawrence Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)
Make sure you know what’s on the placement test and not just Math — Reading and Writing too! This is especially important for community college students as placement tests are administered to all students and 75% are placed into remedial classes aka developmental mathmatics..
CUNY (City University of New York) just switched to the ACCUPLACER placement tests from COMPASS which is being discontinued. Here is a link to an app for practice on this content:
https://accuplacerpractice.collegeboard.org/login
Create an account and practice!!
Notice how much it is for each additional hour:
$5.50. (9.00 – 3.50, 14.50 – 9.00, 20.00 – 14.50)
Let’s substitute in 5.50 into each equation and see if it makes the equation true.
(1) 9.00 + 3(5.50) = 20.00 that one is NOT true because 9 + 16.50 = 25.50 does NOT = 20
(2) 9.00 + 3.50(5.50) = 20 also not true
(3) 2 (5.50) + 9 = 11 + 9 = 20 :)
(4) 2 (5.50) + 9 does not equal 14.50.
That’s it — 2 more points!
(albeit very cheap parking rates)
Putting both equations into Y= and studying the table can help us solve this one!!
Now we must read carefully! What is the largest integer for which f(x)>g(x)?
For x = 7, f(x) = 13484 and is greater than g(x) = 2187
For x = 8, f(x) = 22409 and is still greater than g(x) = 6561
For x = 9, f(x) = 35244 and is still greater than g(x) = 19683
For x = 10, f(x) = 53009 and is NO LONGER greater than g(x) = 59049
Math Confidence by Robin the Math Lady 