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Tip #1 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
For 11 years you've been trained to solve math problems the long way. "No shortcuts!" Mrs. Nicholas always ...
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Tip #5 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
Every ACT has two or three geometry questions that ask you to find the measure of an angle. Many students panic, ...
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Tip #6 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
Most ACTs have one question involving parallel lines. In math class, learning about parallel lines might have seemed ...
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Tip #7 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
Sir Bedevere:… And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped. King Arthur: This new learning ...
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Tip #9 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
Students come into my office and say, "I can't do this question because I don't know what consecutive means." ...
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Tip #10 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
Here are three more math vocab terms. Memorize them, practice using them, and remember to underline them in questions. ...
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Tip #47 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
Some kids are intimidated by the word "logarithm." But if you lived three thousand years ago, and you heard ...
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Tip #29 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
When approaching a question, students often say, "I have no idea where to start!" This book, and this ...
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Tip #11 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
Almost every ACT has a "multiples" question. We know the recipe for the ACT, one multiples question, one ...
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Tip #35 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
Half of the trig questions on the ACT are just SohCahToa, which you've now mastered. Many kids think that the rest of ...
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Tip #31 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
I fear that I will always be A lonely number like root three. A three is all that's good and right, Why must my three ...
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Tip #15 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
Charts and graphs display information, just like the sports page lists a team's wins and losses. In fact, using charts ...
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Tip #33 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
Arrangement questions ask you how many arrangements of something are possible, such as how many different ways 4 letters...
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Tip #17 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
You couldn't ask for easier points to boost your score. Every ACT has a midpoint and/or distance question. If you don't...
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Tip #36 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
They don't take the ACT over there in England, but Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh, and Sporty summed up probability in 1996....
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Tip #34 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
If you were in ancient Greece, the word "trigonometry" would not be intimidating. It would mean "triangle measurement,"...
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Tip #19 to Get a Top ACT Math Score
For the ACT you need to have certain formulas memorized. You need to know these: And the perimeter of any shape is...
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