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What Would a Smart 9th Grader Get on SAT and ACT Math?

Feb 17, 2023 | Testing, Tutoring

What would an A+ student who has just finished Algebra I and Geometry score on the SAT and ACT if she got everything right that she had seen in school and got everything else wrong? According to my analysis, she would score a 29 on ACT Math (80% of the tested...

Digging Deeper: What We Can Learn from Problems on the SAT and ACT

Jan 10, 2022 | Tutoring

The problem above, from the October 2019 SAT, illustrates an interesting and powerful principle that almost always eludes students: a quadratic expression is a structure where the base element does not have to be a simple variable lacking a coefficient or an exponent....

NTPA Lunch N Learn: Mike McGibbon of MathChops

Apr 19, 2021 | Business Operations

Our speaker at the April 2021 NTPA Lunch N Learn was Mike McGibbon of MathChops. Mathchops is an online service that can help your students get higher scores in less time with targeted practice and detailed analytics.