tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300771332024-03-17T20:03:06.528-07:00Borland Educational News and ViewsTo teach is to create possibility; to learn is to discover who we are.Chris Borlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09064420026829425687noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077133.post-2052939075018136222024-03-17T10:22:00.000-07:002024-03-17T10:22:42.449-07:00How To Fail A Test With DignitySometimes, you just can't win.<br />
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In that case, there's no harm or shame in surrender. So why not have a sense of humor about it?<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">These students tried and failed, but succeeded in turning loss into laughs.</span><br />
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Chris Borlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09064420026829425687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077133.post-30573273350795706192024-03-01T12:00:00.000-08:002024-03-17T09:32:50.968-07:00dSAT Reading and Writing Topics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIycVvfprVKNGTOWKw6sEBAAak12oZyTkpnwwK2ZxgVZDjmlOoiBv87cF56SIHqoUqOaFDkj_eqy_8ENVx3zI6typ0lJCVNt7PCCK9n8IacREP0Jc5Ddm3D34I9zhY8Rdoj_orslaMq_waBWrAw0zeZXV3nqPis_2RW4vD58wxoQl2KcU1pAC5/s2400/dSAT%20Reading%20and%20Writing%20Topics.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2400" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIycVvfprVKNGTOWKw6sEBAAak12oZyTkpnwwK2ZxgVZDjmlOoiBv87cF56SIHqoUqOaFDkj_eqy_8ENVx3zI6typ0lJCVNt7PCCK9n8IacREP0Jc5Ddm3D34I9zhY8Rdoj_orslaMq_waBWrAw0zeZXV3nqPis_2RW4vD58wxoQl2KcU1pAC5/s320/dSAT%20Reading%20and%20Writing%20Topics.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;">This is the companion piece to a post I wrote earlier on </span><a href="https://benewsviews.blogspot.com/2024/03/dsat-math-topics-and-skills.html" style="font-kerning: none;">dSAT Math Topics</a><span style="font-kerning: none;">. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">Questions in the Reading/Writing sections of the dSAT cover four broad topic areas: Craft and Structure, Information and Ideas, Standard English Conventions, and Expression of Ideas.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">The entire Reading/Writing section is 64 minutes long with 54 multiple-choice questions.</span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>-<br /><br /><b>Modules</b><br /><br />Two Reading/Writing modules:<br /><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div>Each module is 32 minutes long, with 27 questions (1:11 per question)</div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div>Organized by question type, with similar skills grouped together</div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div>Questions within each group are presented in order of increasing difficulty</div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div>Each question has its own short passage or pair of passages</div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div>Passages are between 20–150 words </div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div>Wide range of topics, including literary excerpts and poetry</div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div>May contain informational tables and graphs </div></div></blockquote><div><div><br />-<br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Information and Ideas</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">12-14 questions, 26% of the section</span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">Use information stated or implied in the passage (may include tables and graphs) to evaluate ideas in the text and draw conclusions.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">Tasks: </span><br /><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;">Determine main idea and central details</span></div></div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;">Interpret details supporting the main idea</span></div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;">Use evidence from the text, graphs, and tables to support or respond to a claim</span></div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;">Draw reasonable inferences based on the passage</span></div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">-</span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Craft and Structure</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">13-15 questions, 28% of the section</span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">Focuses on vocabulary (words in context), text structure and purpose, and cross-text connections.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">Tasks:</span><br /><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;">Determine the primary purpose of the text</span></div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;">Evaluate text structure rhetorically and how the author chose to organize information</span></div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;">Select the best word to complete the text (fill-in the blank)</span></div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;">Compare/contrast two related texts</span></div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;">Make supportable connections between two related texts</span></div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">-</span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Expression of Ideas</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">8-12 questions, 20% of the section</span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">Focuses on improving effectiveness of written expression. Test takers are asked to scrutinize topic development, accuracy, logic, cohesion, transitions, and language to improve, refine, and enhance the effectiveness and impact of of a text and achieve specific rhetorical goals.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">Tasks:</span><br /><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;">Analyze bullet points and choose the one that best combines information to achieve a certain goal</span></div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;">Identify the flow and structure of a passage</span></div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">-</span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Standard English Conventions</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">11-15 questions, 26% of the section</span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">Use editing skills and knowledge to make texts conform to standard conventions of written English, word usage, sentence structure and form, grammar, and punctuation.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;">Tasks:</span><br /><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;">Identify correct punctuation to join and separate sentences and clauses </span></div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;">Find the best way to complete a sentence so that it follows conventions of standard written English (e.g. proper agreement, verb tense, etc.)</span></div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">-----</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.borlandeducational.com/page8/page8.html">Contact Chris</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://borlandeducational.com/" target="_blank">borlandeducational.com</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11px;">Copyright © 2006-present: Christopher R. 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All rights reserved.</span></div></div>Chris Borlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09064420026829425687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077133.post-12225351488032591922024-02-01T12:00:00.000-08:002024-03-17T09:35:49.049-07:00dSAT Math Topics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJVghjly5Y7f6T8bKwlGq3roxVNoSWt8ZsBzpDOL_T-5qmKeza8WD0M8o1Xpr6OwvNY9Soq14c99887zfr6xgv9z4sMXHosCnRCWTQnXEMrqMyYh7r1PtvES-vv8QgU-EULTiXj1a_6NLO_8bATEjTr6GUcBIJZVbuX3HykeU20nOQT5LCz4WW/s1162/dSAT%20Math%20Topics.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="1162" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJVghjly5Y7f6T8bKwlGq3roxVNoSWt8ZsBzpDOL_T-5qmKeza8WD0M8o1Xpr6OwvNY9Soq14c99887zfr6xgv9z4sMXHosCnRCWTQnXEMrqMyYh7r1PtvES-vv8QgU-EULTiXj1a_6NLO_8bATEjTr6GUcBIJZVbuX3HykeU20nOQT5LCz4WW/s320/dSAT%20Math%20Topics.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>After trying and failing to find a comprehensive online resource that thoroughly detailed math content covered on the dSAT, I finally decided to put together my own. I've also written a companion piece on <a href="https://benewsviews.blogspot.com/2024/03/dsat-reading-and-writing-topics.html">dSAT Reading and Writing Topics</a>.<br /><br />Questions in the Math section of the dSAT cover four broad topic areas: Algebra, Advanced Math, Problem Solving and Data Analysis, and Geometry/Trigonometry.<div><br /></div><div>The entire Math section is 70 minutes long with 44 multiple-choice questions.<br /><br />-<br /><br /><b>Modules</b><br /><br />Two math modules:<br /><br /><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Each module is 35 minutes long, with 22 questions (1:35 per question)<div><br /></div><div>75% multiple choice (33 questions), 25% student produced response (11 questions)</div><div><br /></div><div>30% in-context word problems (≤ 50 words)</div><div><br /></div><div>Progressive difficulty (easiest first, hardest last)</div><div><br /></div><div>Calculators are allowed – but don't use a handheld – learn to use Desmos, instead</div><div><br /></div><div>Questions from each topic area appear in each module</div></blockquote><div>-</div><div><br /><b>Algebra</b><br /><br />35%: 13-15 questions total<br /><br /></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div>Linear equations in one variable (analyze, solve, create)</div><div><br /></div><div>Linear equations in two variables (analyze, test, solve, graph, create)</div><div><br /></div><div>Linear inequalities in one variable (analyze, solve, create)</div><div><br /></div><div>Linear inequalities in two variables (analyze, test, solve, graph, create)</div><div><br /></div><div>Linear Functions (analyze, test, evaluate, graph, create)</div><div><br /></div><div>2D Linear Systems (analyze, test, solve, create) </div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />-<br /><br /><b>Advanced Math</b><br /><br />35%: 13-15 questions total<br /><br /></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">Equivalent expressions</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Non-linear equations in one variable (analyze, solve, interpret, create): absolute value, quadratic, polynomial, exponential</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Non-linear functions (analyze, solve): absolute value, quadratic, polynomial, exponential</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Non-linear systems in two variables (test, solve)</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />-<br /><br /><b>Problem Solving and Data Analysis</b><br /><br />15%: 5-7 questions total<br /><br /></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">Ratios, rates, proportions, units</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Percentages</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Analyze and interpret one-variable data: distributions and measures of center and spread (mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Analyze and interpret two-variable data: models and scatter plots</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Simple Probability</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Conditional Probability</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Inference from sample stats and margin of error</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Evaluating statistical claims: observational studies and experiments</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />-<br /><br /><b>Geometry and Trigonometry</b><br /><br />15%: 5-7 questions total<br /><br /></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">Perimeter, area, volume</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Lines, angles, triangles</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Right triangles</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Trigonometry (SOH CAH TOA)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Circles</div></blockquote><div><br />-<br /><br />Most of this content was paraphrased from the following sources:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.rtest.ai/blog/post/What-topics-are-on-the-digital-sat">What Topics are on the Digital SAT?</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/v2-sat-math/x0fcc98a58ba3bea7:about-the-digital-sat/x0fcc98a58ba3bea7:what-is-the-new-digital-sat/a/about-the-digital-sat-math-test">What's on the digital SAT Math Test?</a><br /><br /><a href="https://testinnovators.com/blog/educators-guide-to-the-digital-sat/">Educator's Guide to the Digital SAT</a><br /><br /><a href="https://test-ninjas.com/digital-sat-format">The New Digital SAT Format</a><br /><br /><a href="https://collegeprep.uworld.com/sat/test-format-and-sections/">(New) Digital SAT Test Format</a><div><br /></div><div><div style="font-family: times; 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Now that Desmos is included as an integral part of the digital SAT, acquiring intermediate-level Desmos skills is fundamental to maximizing math scores on this important assessment.<div><br /></div><div>[Familiarity with the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Texas+Instruments+TI-84+Plus+CE+Color+Graphing+Calculator&s=exact-aware-popularity-rank&crid=HFK8YL0VL3SD&qid=1708964648&sprefix=texas+instruments+ti-84+plus+ce+color+graphing+calculator%2Caps%2C362&ref=sr_st_exact-aware-popularity-rank&ds=v1%3AaZLlFYJ%2BWnqHjLkfjdEiKMnVL2IF7UTC%2BDZ7twVFhb4">Ti-84 Plus CE</a> handheld graphing calculator is still crucial to optimizing math scores on the ACT.]</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm not aware of any succinct, comprehensive exposition of Desmos skills required for use on the dSAT (I'm working on it).</div><div><br /></div><div>At this point, the best one can do is to peruse the various official materials linked in the "Desmos First Steps" and "Desmos Graphing Calculator" sections below. </div><div><br /></div><div>Check out each link, read the information provided, and do the sample exercises until you've covered all topics presented (search Google for additional help with particular topics).</div><div><br /></div>-<br /><br />Desmos First Steps<br /><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gV-WgDjgR9hKKb32ffeUpjwggNAgfqxl0Gsg6xocbok/preview">User Guide</a><br /><br /><a href="https://desmos.s3.amazonaws.com/desmos_quickstart.pdf">Quick Start Guide</a><br /><br /><a href="https://help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406040715149-Getting-Started-Desmos-Graphing-Calculator">Getting Started: Desmos Graphing Calculator<br /></a><br /><a href="https://help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407512915469-Getting-Started-Creating-Your-First-Graph">Getting Started: Creating Your First Graph</a><br /><br /><a href="https://help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/search?query=getting%20started">Getting Started Articles</a><br /><br />-<br /><br />Desmos Graphing Calculator<br /><br /><a href="https://help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/categories/4406369954701-Graphing-Calculator">Graphing Calculator</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4405305421709-Graphing-Calculator-Essential-Skills">Graphing Calculator: Essential Skills<br /></a><br /><a href="https://help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/search?query=graphing">Graphing</a><br /><br /><a href="https://help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406360401677-FAQs-Desmos-Graphing-Calculator">FAQ: Graph<br /></a><br /><a href="https://help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404950394253-FAQs-Student-Graphing">FAQ: Student Graphing<br /></a><br />-<br /><br />Desmos Geometry<br /><br /><a href="https://help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/articles/15316366009997-Getting-Started-Desmos-Geometry">Geometry</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.desmos.com/geometry">Geometry Tool<br /></a><br /><a href="https://help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/articles/15364983456909-Transformations-Desmos-Geometry">Transformations</a><br /><br />-<br /><br />Other Desmos Calculators<br /><br /><a href="https://www.desmos.com/scientific">Scientific Calculator<br /></a><br /><a href="https://www.desmos.com/matrix">Matrix Calculator</a><br /><br /><a href="https://help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/categories/19905832843661-3D-Calculator">3-D Calculator</a><br /><br />-<br /><br />Desmos Miscellaneous<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfM6zMGnbgOGLZc-_Yj3QVK3Vz_L4Cw59">Tutorials</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/Desmos/videos">Desmos YouTube Channel<br /></a><br /><a href="https://www.desmos.com/graphingshortcuts?lang=en">Keyboard Shortcuts<br /></a><br /><a href="https://help.desmos.com/hc/en-us">Help</a><br /><br /><div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">-----</span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.borlandeducational.com/page8/page8.html">Contact Chris</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://borlandeducational.com/" target="_blank">borlandeducational.com</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11px;">Copyright © 2006-present: Christopher R. 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All rights reserved.</span></div></div>Chris Borlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09064420026829425687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077133.post-88057418439906977372023-12-01T12:00:00.000-08:002024-03-16T13:02:51.710-07:00Look Inside the Digital SAT<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4BfXvzcLV1KWfokpUpaFNINgASL1XtN73K6AlHUl_VtPLNm9yOOxBvlvia8WdX9HFkeoItRbNXBNBiNDEcLu7RZi1zRCrt7tnd17yA_-jxZf4_udmtKQzoV2rCfyOx4YenUcO431jwynTjkqhqNH84a__CCst9rQtVXVOcI-DDTYQgl0JYc2o/s368/An%20Inside%20Look%20at%20the%20Digital%20SAT.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="368" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4BfXvzcLV1KWfokpUpaFNINgASL1XtN73K6AlHUl_VtPLNm9yOOxBvlvia8WdX9HFkeoItRbNXBNBiNDEcLu7RZi1zRCrt7tnd17yA_-jxZf4_udmtKQzoV2rCfyOx4YenUcO431jwynTjkqhqNH84a__CCst9rQtVXVOcI-DDTYQgl0JYc2o/s320/An%20Inside%20Look%20at%20the%20Digital%20SAT.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The digital SAT has arrived, </span></div></span></div><br />In the meantime, much has been written about all aspects of this latest incarnation of the SAT. All along, The College Board has offered limited information concerning what we who care should expect. <br /><br />But the private analyses of those whose businesses and livelihoods hinge on gaining an early, accurate, and comprehensive view of this strange new beast are also well worth noting.<br /><br />In addition to those featured on the <a href="http://www.borlandeducational.com/services/resources/styled-42/">SAT/dSAT resource page</a> of my business site, below are several more such reports.<br /><br /><div>-</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.princetonreview.com/college-advice/sat-digital-exam">Princeton Review: The NEW Digital SAT: What You Need to Know</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blog.prepscholar.com/digital-sat-format">The Ultimate Guide to the New Digital SAT Format</a></div><div><br /><a href="https://www.barronseduc.com/blogs/sat/post/digital-sat-faq">Barrons: Digital SAT Frequently Asked Questions</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://testinnovators.com/blog/top-questions-about-digital-sat/">The Top Questions about the Digital SAT Answered</a></div><div><br /><a href="https://www.applerouth.com/blog/deep-dive-on-the-4-digital-sat-practice-tests">Applerouth: Deep Dive on the 4 Digital SAT Practice Tests</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">-----</span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.borlandeducational.com/page8/page8.html">Contact Chris</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://borlandeducational.com/" target="_blank">borlandeducational.com</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11px;">Copyright © 2006-present: Christopher R. Borland. All rights reserved.</span></div></div>Chris Borlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09064420026829425687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077133.post-41938960758444204062023-11-01T12:00:00.000-07:002024-03-12T23:10:35.862-07:00Bring a Mouse to the SAT<p></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYV-uF-vbNSSwb7c2mN6Exjfre3RU_Hni10pY4-aH7aBPBf8fdFWZg9PCKWbF8lIqlzMYiWSvGqrBq18rVR27720MAVH_Bv1Ljn8A7zUlkTA46ZrQfE8VSM_CZld9nLMuJrqa_C0FbMmK0TbMqkY7ShO0NDP3M4g9PkcgnHd6Nh59AqCvOV3E2/s1398/Bring%20a%20Mouse%20to%20the%20SAT.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="955" data-original-width="1398" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYV-uF-vbNSSwb7c2mN6Exjfre3RU_Hni10pY4-aH7aBPBf8fdFWZg9PCKWbF8lIqlzMYiWSvGqrBq18rVR27720MAVH_Bv1Ljn8A7zUlkTA46ZrQfE8VSM_CZld9nLMuJrqa_C0FbMmK0TbMqkY7ShO0NDP3M4g9PkcgnHd6Nh59AqCvOV3E2/s320/Bring%20a%20Mouse%20to%20the%20SAT.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Most people find use of a mouse to be a time saver, especially if you’re accustomed to employing one. </div></div></div></div><br />On the digital SAT, every second counts, and a mouse is one of your best friends on this important assessment. <br /><br />The College Board allows use of a mouse on the digital SAT. Practice with your favorite mouse at home. Then bring the same usb mouse with you on test date, plug it in, and go. <br /><br />This seems like a minor detail, but there’s almost no such thing when it comes to high-stakes testing.<br /><div><br /></div><div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">-----</span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.borlandeducational.com/page8/page8.html">Contact Chris</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://borlandeducational.com/" target="_blank">borlandeducational.com</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11px;">Copyright © 2006-present: Christopher R. Borland. All rights reserved.</span></div></div>Chris Borlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09064420026829425687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077133.post-45268551556764791412023-10-01T12:00:00.000-07:002024-03-17T12:01:17.896-07:00The Official Digital SAT Study Guide<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Official-Digital-SAT-Study-Guide/dp/1457316706/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ZDUZW9C1NSBP&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.l0r2U0bGYVGolhsYTRxDfUFJufRFXv91GMAycLb-uYqPtgKpVOlh_l_ExudW1JE693zzSK7uaiU_b5rs0NhEuHfnByLZhBREw9WyDv6uxwPZUZ--v-8afwyGRCx8V8J4jIZFvO9RR0HCoI30Qj08SUruGkH_QM7wZYBRiuBw9wcln8G5Q-RoOxuqSZqv802cZp1IWrvDV5-0xMYI1cgFaxrHkxtUeyKij4_6BgJFEVQ.LNZ8e5Q6xAgDxfuFL1ui6YRa0dpkY6k7amfVHGMZD7k&dib_tag=se&keywords=college+board+official+sat+study+guide+2024&qid=1710287313&sprefix=college+board+official%2Caps%2C263&sr=8-1"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Official-Digital-SAT-Study-Guide/dp/1457316706/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ZDUZW9C1NSBP&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.l0r2U0bGYVGolhsYTRxDfUFJufRFXv91GMAycLb-uYqPtgKpVOlh_l_ExudW1JE693zzSK7uaiU_b5rs0NhEuHfnByLZhBREw9WyDv6uxwPZUZ--v-8afwyGRCx8V8J4jIZFvO9RR0HCoI30Qj08SUruGkH_QM7wZYBRiuBw9wcln8G5Q-RoOxuqSZqv802cZp1IWrvDV5-0xMYI1cgFaxrHkxtUeyKij4_6BgJFEVQ.LNZ8e5Q6xAgDxfuFL1ui6YRa0dpkY6k7amfVHGMZD7k&dib_tag=se&keywords=college+board+official+sat+study+guide+2024&qid=1710287313&sprefix=college+board+official%2Caps%2C263&sr=8-1"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfCyOM_SQLs1L13Bil_aCEPVTa9d0XXymcJmsavxW1WWxbcYxWU8mh84Zhx-7jSEcW6DyDGBKAaXk0DUfdvzkNsTe1JFd9NmUJHLK-RNks_GN0d9008eLQ_Ep8I9_Z5FS_47HWb1VG3RiakE7kLMDpO0RlZlXdjiiS4nylV6_h3fmyUQrKjGqf/s1500/The%20Official%20Digital%20SAT%20Study%20Guide.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1127" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfCyOM_SQLs1L13Bil_aCEPVTa9d0XXymcJmsavxW1WWxbcYxWU8mh84Zhx-7jSEcW6DyDGBKAaXk0DUfdvzkNsTe1JFd9NmUJHLK-RNks_GN0d9008eLQ_Ep8I9_Z5FS_47HWb1VG3RiakE7kLMDpO0RlZlXdjiiS4nylV6_h3fmyUQrKjGqf/s320/The%20Official%20Digital%20SAT%20Study%20Guide.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>The Official Digital SAT Study Guide by The College Board has been the sine qua non of SAT work for decades. <div><br /></div><div>But with the SAT's switch to a new digital format, just how useful is this latest incarnation of the venerable test prep tome? Why buy a book printed on paper when the test is now taken on-screen?</div><div><br /></div><div>These are good questions.</div><div><br /></div><div>The new edition contains four non-adaptive paper versions of the digital SAT – the very same "linear" tests made available as <a href="https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/sat/practice-preparation/practice-tests/linear">free downloads</a> to students everywhere – which are roughly 70% identical to the four official adaptive on-screen tests contained in the College Board's <a href="https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/sat/practice-preparation/practice-tests/bluebook">BlueBook</a> app (the only official tests available in on-screen adaptive form).</div><div><br /></div><div>So that's even less reason to buy the book, right?</div><div><br /></div><div>Right. Except for one thing.</div><div><br /></div><div>Currently, there's a severe scarcity of official SAT practice materials (this happens each time the College Board decides to overhaul the test). Every new official SAT question made available to the public for practice gives valuable clues as to what to expect on the test, and is therefore worth gold.</div><div><br /></div><div>As it happens, the new College Board Official Guide to the SAT contains 192 printed practice questions different from those provided anywhere else. That's nearly the equivalent of two additional full-length digital SAT tests.</div><div><br /></div><div>So yes, at this point, you should buy the new edition – if only to gain additional practice with those 192 precious questions.<br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 16px;">-----</span><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px;" /><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.borlandeducational.com/page8/page8.html">Contact Chris</a></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://borlandeducational.com/" target="_blank">borlandeducational.com</a></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11px;">Copyright © 2006-present: Christopher R. Borland. All rights reserved.</span></div></div><div><br /></div></div>Chris Borlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09064420026829425687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077133.post-16095814345464733202023-09-01T12:00:00.000-07:002024-03-17T11:57:30.722-07:00Commercial Test Prep<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh179dDbC-KVAUFsuTz146uKDBSUZgod8eoa8_4Y4xZ20Od0tKWZNrHlM9z7uJEzNTlieBrJ0EtefGCoRiorDIrHSjDkBnSfBEgM5RVpKqsYF9BPx8QVag83xRITH5aoF-r-F3EXBS92zQAKeme_ZTuau_QRTsrU5lu0lFFcodfR6U8gFRv4Mft/s255/Commercial%20Test%20Prep%203.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="255" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh179dDbC-KVAUFsuTz146uKDBSUZgod8eoa8_4Y4xZ20Od0tKWZNrHlM9z7uJEzNTlieBrJ0EtefGCoRiorDIrHSjDkBnSfBEgM5RVpKqsYF9BPx8QVag83xRITH5aoF-r-F3EXBS92zQAKeme_ZTuau_QRTsrU5lu0lFFcodfR6U8gFRv4Mft/s1600/Commercial%20Test%20Prep%203.jpg" width="255" /></a></div>Needless to say, when I graduated high school in 1975, it was an entirely different world.</span></div></span></div></span></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><br />With plenty of well-paying blue collar jobs available in the U.S., a college education was seen as an optional luxury, not at all a requirement to live a good middle-class life. I remember befriending a Golden Gate Bridge worker in the late-1980’s who was paid an annual salary of nearly $60,000 – <a href="https://www.usinflationcalculator.com">$150,000 today</a> – taking tolls!<br /><br />Not many students used any kind of prep, though. I took the PSAT in high school, cold, no prep or pre-test studying at all, as a lark (and hit 98th percentile). But I never told the SAT (didn’t feel like wasting a Saturday morning). Most of my friends acted similarly. College just wasn’t a must-do, at the time.<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kaplan">Stanley Kaplan</a> invented the modern test prep industry in 1939, and between 1940 and 1980 his company’s courses and books were essentially the only ones available to help interested students maximize scores on the standardized tests like the SAT.<br /><br />Then along came the Princeton Review in the mid-1980’s, upending the entire educational testing scene. Despite protestations from the College Board and others, PR showed everyone just how easy it was to game these tests and quickly raise scores without doing much to improve nominal academic ability.<br /><br />When I began tutoring professionally in the late 1970’s, test coaching wasn’t yet a thing. Following the huge success of PR, the test prep industry as we know it today was born. <div><br /><div>The test prep universe is vast. Companies old and new seem infinite in number. With the advent of distance learning on a mass scale during the Covid epidemic, this number has grown further. <br /><br />It’s not easy to make a choice, nowadays, given the multitude of options. To aid in your search, listed below are my current favorites, based on my own long experience and most recent research on the subject:</div><div><br /></div><div>-<br /><br /><a href="https://www.princetonreview.com">Princeton Review</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.compassprep.com">Compass</a><br /><br /><a href="https://prepexpert.com">Prep Expert</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.prepscholar.com">PrepScholar</a><br /><div><br /><a href="http://1600.io">1600.io</a><br /><br /><a href="https://collegeprep.uworld.com">UWorld College Prep</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="su789%4wT66i">TestInnovators</a></div><div><br /><a href="https://thesatcrashcourse.com/sat-courses/">Digital SAT Crash Courses</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.rtest.ai">R.{test}</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">-----</span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.borlandeducational.com/page8/page8.html">Contact Chris</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://borlandeducational.com/" target="_blank">borlandeducational.com</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11px;">Copyright © 2006-present: Christopher R. Borland. All rights reserved.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div></div>Chris Borlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09064420026829425687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077133.post-43555191559394989182023-08-01T12:00:00.000-07:002024-03-13T06:20:31.948-07:00Mock dSAT Practice Tests<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivnfJ_AmqQTCab5iZ0pyVHlQfGgnrfLFxILfiuAnT_QywPOYRmnpfddEq8s7MBuj3MRzJKce-HlHXPhbEStMawTK-oCqTdcnB22WCRzHwMYzADzs-AzDzE_5EBfHURMnuOwEGoDiF1dpeRZUQTj5uqE28nIENB6ZO78JfBryodCw1vUmIMz9tl/s894/Commercial%20dSAT%20Practice%20Tests.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="894" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivnfJ_AmqQTCab5iZ0pyVHlQfGgnrfLFxILfiuAnT_QywPOYRmnpfddEq8s7MBuj3MRzJKce-HlHXPhbEStMawTK-oCqTdcnB22WCRzHwMYzADzs-AzDzE_5EBfHURMnuOwEGoDiF1dpeRZUQTj5uqE28nIENB6ZO78JfBryodCw1vUmIMz9tl/s320/Commercial%20dSAT%20Practice%20Tests.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>It’s always the same.<br /><br />Whenever the College Board trots out a new version of the SAT, years elapse before we have enough official practice material to adequately prepare students for the test.<br /><br />True to form, to date, the College Board has only made released four official computer-based adaptive SAT tests to the public. To do a good job preparing for the SAT, students need 3-4 times that number.<br /><br />As always, we’re left to evaluate the various mock SAT practice test offerings currently available. Luckily, most companies offer a free sample test.<div><br /></div><div>In fact, you could pay nothing (or almost nothing) for multiple mock dSAT practice tests simply by signing up for free trials from the list of providers below.<br /><br />-<br /><br /><a href="https://www.princetonreview.com/college/free-sat-practice-test">Princeton Review</a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://www.kaptest.com/sat/free/sat-practice">Kaplan</a><br /><div><br /><a href="https://www.compassprep.com/practice-tests/digital-adaptive/">Compass</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.rtest.ai/exam/DSAT">R.{test}</a><br /><br /></div><div><a href="https://study.thesatcrashcourse.com/tests/digital-sat">The SAT Crash Course</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://summit.onecanoe.com/registration/create/?digital=1&on_demand=2">Summit Educational Group</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-sat-practice-test-the-new-computer-adaptive-sat-registration-622973830497">TPAPT</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://piqosity.com/courses/digital-sat-psat/">Piqosity</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://curvebreakers.store/products/online-diagnostic-digital-sat-practice-testing-platform-full-access">curvebreakers</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.edisonos.com/free-digital-sat-practice-test">EdisonOS</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.edisonos.com/free-digital-sat-practice-test">EdisonOS for Tutors</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://test-ninjas.com">Test Ninjas<br /></a><br /><a href="https://www.test-qube.com/buy-dsat-test">Test Qube</a><a href="http://LearnQ.ai"><br /></a><br /><a href="https://www.tutorwand.com/sat-practice-test.html">TutorWand</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.digitalsat.ai">Multintel</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.ett-test.com">ETT</a><br /><br /><a href="https://highscores.ai">HighScores</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">-----</span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.borlandeducational.com/page8/page8.html">Contact Chris</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://borlandeducational.com/" target="_blank">borlandeducational.com</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11px;">Copyright © 2006-present: Christopher R. Borland. All rights reserved.</span></div></div></div></div>Chris Borlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09064420026829425687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077133.post-44195787842704023892023-07-01T12:00:00.000-07:002024-03-17T10:32:54.374-07:00Cracking BlueBook Second Modules<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhIR4mVkPcbtg6e_VXezgHzEoI5mcEJnTewePz_dRAx7r2oNdH4h2y6Vl_3_tZ79uDXuQSu4JmxBP5tOL5bo_3QOuCZaj6t1P-IFHpTXVCkfgLta9FNLuOQ5V2CCXC2VV12pwxqmcksAdfk8K1TwTSgqzM4GIZHpaSi7FY5_fJ6BsbiSRxLrB8/s500/Cracking%20BlueBook%20Second%20Modules.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="207" data-original-width="500" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhIR4mVkPcbtg6e_VXezgHzEoI5mcEJnTewePz_dRAx7r2oNdH4h2y6Vl_3_tZ79uDXuQSu4JmxBP5tOL5bo_3QOuCZaj6t1P-IFHpTXVCkfgLta9FNLuOQ5V2CCXC2VV12pwxqmcksAdfk8K1TwTSgqzM4GIZHpaSi7FY5_fJ6BsbiSRxLrB8/s320/Cracking%20BlueBook%20Second%20Modules.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>With only six available official digital adaptive SATs and PSATs, it’s critical that students get access to all questions contained in the “second modules” of each section of each test in the BlueBook app. </span></div><br />There’s no way to do so directly, but an easy workaround gets the job done: <div><br /></div><div>-<br /><br />1. After completing your practice test, save the answer page. <br /><br />2. Retake the same practice test. <br /><br />3. To access the harder second module, enter only correct answers when you retake the test; to access the easier module, enter only incorrect answers. <br /><br />- <br /><br />A <a href="https://www.drivecms.com/uploads/mcelroytutoring.com/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-07%20at%205.50.16%20PM.png">screenshot</a> shows what this looks like.<div> <br />You may also want to screenshot important questions as you practice (hardest problems, any you’ve answered wrongly, etc.) and keep these in a folder for further study. <br /><br />These few official tests are best used sparingly to assess progress in your prep work or as “dress rehearsals” before test dates. <br /><br />They're the only ones you’ve got. Don’t waste them!<div><br /></div><div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">-----</span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.borlandeducational.com/page8/page8.html">Contact Chris</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://borlandeducational.com/" target="_blank">borlandeducational.com</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11px;">Copyright © 2006-present: Christopher R. Borland. All rights reserved.</span></div></div></div></div>Chris Borlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09064420026829425687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077133.post-35530398864419352042023-06-01T12:00:00.000-07:002024-03-13T02:05:50.419-07:00Assorted Quotes I Can't Add<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaf1DJVaNNao4pGONlEe-LZYoXprfSOrdIjgCy3_SInUC0xcnjG-m88m0tmtIH4Px7LoLReSdsAvdSCj49JbAm_zWBhq7Ykj36rVpGhElxX8AYT7VGFGqzS7q09O8fod0Uo8ChCowRYb0w2u4OCMLR8aI_tDJ2JArPQLW-DI8lF4bmfeEdU7uR/s225/Assorted%20Quotes.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="225" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaf1DJVaNNao4pGONlEe-LZYoXprfSOrdIjgCy3_SInUC0xcnjG-m88m0tmtIH4Px7LoLReSdsAvdSCj49JbAm_zWBhq7Ykj36rVpGhElxX8AYT7VGFGqzS7q09O8fod0Uo8ChCowRYb0w2u4OCMLR8aI_tDJ2JArPQLW-DI8lF4bmfeEdU7uR/w200-h199/Assorted%20Quotes.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>Unfortunately, Google doesn't seem to be updating the Blogger platform. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Apparently, the </span><span style="text-align: left;">"Text" gadget is broken.</span></div><br />I've tried hard, to find a work around for this particular problem. Without any luck, I'm afraid.<br /><br />I'd intended to add several quotes to that section of this blog's sidebar, but it appears I won't be able to do so.<br /><br />Rather than let the quotes languish outside the blog, I've decided to write a post listing them. This is that post.<br /><br />-<div><br /></div><div>Bertrand Russell <br /><br /></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i>No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i>Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i>It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i>The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i>The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i>People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i>The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.</i> </span> </div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Ralph Waldo Emerson <br /><i><br /></i></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;">The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. </span></i></div></div><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;">Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. </span></i></div></div><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;">Every man I meet is in some way my superior; and in that I can learn of him. </span></i></div></div><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;">To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. </span></i></div></div><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;">You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. </span></i></div></div><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;">I have been writing & speaking what were once called novelties, for twenty five or thirty years, & have not now one disciple. Why? Not that what I said was not true; not that it has not found intelligent receivers but because it did not go from any wish in me to bring men to me, but to themselves. </span></i></div></div><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;">Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. </span></i></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Albert Einstein <br /><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i>The mass of a body is a measure of its energy content. </i></span></div></div><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i>The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart. </i></span></div></div><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i>The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them. </i></span></div></div><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i>If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut. </i></span></div></div><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i>I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am. </i></span></div></div><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i>Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. </i></span></div></div><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i>I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. </i></span></div></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">George Pólya <br /><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #009900;">The teacher should not discourage his students from using trial and error – on the contrary, he should encourage the intelligent use of the fundamental method of successive approximations. Yet he should convincingly show that, for many situations, straightforward algebra is more efficient than successive approximations. </span></i></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #009900;">We wish to see the typical attitude of the scientist who uses mathematics to understand the world around us. In the solution of a problem there are typically three phases. The first phase is entirely or almost entirely a matter of physics; the third, a matter of mathematics; and the intermediate phase, a transition from physics to mathematics. The first phase is the formulation of the physical hypothesis or conjecture; the second, its translation into equations; the third, the solution of the equations. Each phase calls for a different kind of work and demands a different attitude. </span></i></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #009900;">In plausible reasoning the principal thing is to distinguish a more reasonable guess from a less reasonable guess. The efficient use of plausible reasoning is a practical skill … and it is learned by imitation and practice. What I can offer are only examples for imitation and opportunity for practice. </span></i></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #009900;">Even if without the Scott's proverbial thrift, the difficulty of solving differential equations is an incentive to using them parsimoniously.</span></i></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">-----</span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.borlandeducational.com/page8/page8.html">Contact Chris</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://borlandeducational.com/" target="_blank">borlandeducational.com</a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11px;">Copyright © 2006-present: Christopher R. Borland. All rights reserved.</span></div></div></div></div>Chris Borlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09064420026829425687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077133.post-4124097953064259322023-05-01T12:00:00.001-07:002024-03-17T11:32:11.748-07:00The Magic Of Khan<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7MGlrnb3e-qWCgqduaT0li4RHJuFvKWIlfh0F0jB_55P5LxBgmK271q9KdQxhBTs-i7J4TvcOKumn1vAohXek70TajBfk6YYUnFUmAr7Y4ttbhx6LpBNQtFWo8jZMDioKdWTz50KwzdjZrT704OFa-6eVZIxb2idqkU3WhC3EHxkzW5cysxON/s225/The%20Magic%20Of%20Khan.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="225" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7MGlrnb3e-qWCgqduaT0li4RHJuFvKWIlfh0F0jB_55P5LxBgmK271q9KdQxhBTs-i7J4TvcOKumn1vAohXek70TajBfk6YYUnFUmAr7Y4ttbhx6LpBNQtFWo8jZMDioKdWTz50KwzdjZrT704OFa-6eVZIxb2idqkU3WhC3EHxkzW5cysxON/s1600/The%20Magic%20Of%20Khan.jpeg" width="225" /></a></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academy">Khan Academy</a> is the apotheosis of distance learning and one of the chief miracles of the information age.</span></div><br />Nowhere can one find a larger variety of excellent educational offerings, from Pre-K curricula and grade school standards to AP Art History, APUSH, Differential Equations, and Organic Chemistry. <br /><br />Khan's educational offerings, available in 42 languages, are used in diverse ways in public, private, and homeschool classrooms all over the world. Total views are in the billions, and growing.<div><br /></div><div>And no wonder. The courses are rigorous, well-organized, and expertly taught, and a pleasure to use. Founder <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_Khan#">Sal Kahn</a> is a genius, a visionary, and probably the world’s best private tutor. <br /><br />There’s no excuse for boredom.<br /><br />Click <a href="https://www.khanacademy.org">here</a>.<div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 16px;">-----</span><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px;" /><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.borlandeducational.com/page8/page8.html">Contact Chris</a></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://borlandeducational.com/" target="_blank">borlandeducational.com</a></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11px;">Copyright © 2006-present: Christopher R. Borland. 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You are a ghost driving a meat-covered skeleton made from stardust riding a rock floating through space. <br />
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Reading – i.e. the ability to understand and derive meaning from textual information – will always an essential academic skill.<br />
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But today we live in the age of data, and basic numeric and statistical proficiency are also likely to be de regueur throughout the 21st century.<br />
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Academic goals and curricula are already changing to reflect this trend. Among the most pressing of these new number-based skills is the ability to understand charts and graphs, to wean pertinent information and draw relevant conclusions from visual information (e.g. ACT science scores depend on this skill).<br />
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In partnership with the American Statistical Association, the New York Times is aiming to make its own contribution to the data literacy of America’s collective student body by presenting a new feature throughout the 2018-19 academic year:<br />
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Each week, a new professional-grade NYT infographic will be presented with questions to aid in analyzing, understanding, and questioning the information it illustrates. The stated purpose of the educational project is to “teach students how to read, interpret and question graphs, maps and charts,” and is intended to support math and stats teachers across the country.<br />
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Information presented graphically is going to become more and more a part of daily life as time marches on. Data visualization, and visual communication generally, are on the rise as essential academic and life skills.<br />
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This effort by the NYT and ASA is to be applauded. I look forward to checking out the featured infographics each week, and hope you will do so, as well.<br />
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Click <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/column/whats-going-on-in-this-graph">here</a> for the latest graph in the series.<br />
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It may be too much to ask in this age in which English teachers no longer feel the need to teach grammar (and English majors aren't even required to study it), but shouldn't we expect better than <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/27/us/politics/trump-letter-english-teacher.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Feducation&action=click&contentCollection=education&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=10&pgtype=sectionfront">this</a> from the office of the highest governmental official in the land?<br />
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I might suggest these <a href="http://borlandeducational.com/page39/page39.html">English language resources</a>.<br />
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Until you declare a major, take highly-rated professors, not classes!<br />
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Think of <a href="https://www.ratemyprofessors.com">ratemyprofessors.com</a> as Yelp for college professors. Search for your school (or prospective schools), and get reviews and ratings by real students of instructors in all departments. Use the site to find life-changing teachers and avoid duds.<br />
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Some reviews are more helpful than others, and as is the case with other review sites, ratemyprofessors.com doesn’t tell the whole story. But with quantified measures like "Overall Quality" and "Level of Difficulty" (among other indicators) it’s a whole lot better than having no idea at all as to which teachers are likely to be golden and which should probably be avoided like the plague.<br />
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Most/all established professors at are listed at each institution, and university-wide averages give you some idea as to the quality and collective personality of various faculties.<br />
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Schools are rated by students according to other important factors, as well (e.g. reputation, happiness, food, facilities, location, social life, etc.), providing useful comparative data.<br />
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As an example, click <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/campusRatings.jsp?sid=1161">here</a> to see data for Wesleyan University.<br />
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I had planned to store the overflow from the "Math as Art" project in a single post on this blog, but it quickly became apparent that the project would require a site of its own.<br />
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Listing 101 truly useful and important academic and personal goals to fulfill as an undergrad, Gordon gives callow freshmen a roadmap to follow to make the most of their college years.<br />
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Those four undergraduate years will be over before you know it, and with them will disappear once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Don’t waste some of the most important and potentially profitable and enjoyable years of your life! <div><br /></div><div>This book makes a great gift. Should be required reading for every college-bound high school senior. Slightly out-of-date, but still a fantastic font of fabulous ideas for undergrads. <div><br /></div><div>UPDATE: Great TED talk given by Jullien on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29tJAgc54RA">4.0 GPA That Really Matters</a>.<br />
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Everything you wanted to know about the Mandelbrot Fractal. A great gift for the math nerd in your life.<br />
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For audiences, it always seems like that; suddenly this great supernova explodes into view, changing the sky forever. </div><div><br /></div><div>Of course it's not like that at all.</div><div>
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Fame may happen overnight, but the artistic growth and development of a phenomenon like Bocelli is often excruciating slow and painful. The degree of hyper-focus and self-centeredness required of great artists makes intimate relationships all the harder to create and maintain. No wonder addiction and madness are familiar attendants to those having regular intercourse with the Muses.</div>
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Yet somehow the fuse finally gets lit, the coming eruption only a matter counting down. Those that survive ignition share us with glimpses of other worlds, uncommon truths and ephemeral realities, souveniers of Heaven.<br /><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;"> Dear Veronica, my dear children, </span></i></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div><i><span style="color: #009900;"> <br /></span></i></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #009900;"> Every life is a wonderful story worthy of being told. Every life is a work of art, and if it does not seem so, perhaps it is only necessary to illuminate the room that contains it.</span></i></div></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></i></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #009900;"> The secret is never to lose faith, to have confidence in God's plan for us, revealed in the signs with which He shows us the way.</span></i></div></div></blockquote><div><div><i><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></i></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #009900;"> If you learn to listen, you will find that each life speaks to us of love. Because love is the key to everything, the engine of the world. Love is the secret energy behind every note I sing.</span></i></div></div></blockquote><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><span style="color: #009900;"><i> And never forget that there's no such thing as happenstance. That's an illusion lawless and arrogant men invented so that they could sacrifice the truth of our world to the laws of reason.</i></span></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="color: #009900;"><br /></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #009900;">Andrea Bocelli (2017 biopic: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoKM-GIfXOU">The Music of Silence</a><a href="#"></a>)</div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /> -----</div></div><div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /> <span style="font-family: times;"><a href="#"></a></span><a href="http://www.borlandeducational.com/page8/page8.html" style="font-family: times; font-size: 16px;">Contact Chris</a></div>
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Concerning the SAT Math Subject Test, the three most important numbers are:<br />
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2, 800, 44.<br />
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You should take the SAT Math Subject Test, Level 2 (SAT2M2). There’s virtually no reason for anyone to take Level 1.<br />
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SAT Subject Tests allow students to pick the two subjects at which they most excel and then show off by getting very high scores on those tests. A very high score on Level 1 of the SAT Math Subject Test is meaningless, because it begs the question: “If this student is so good at math, why didn’t she take the SAT2M2?”<br />
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And that would be a good question. If you’re so good at math that you’ve chosen mathematics as one of your two subject test areas, you should certainly be taking the most advanced level of the math subject test, which is Level 2.<br />
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Opting for Level 1 of this particular test defeats the purpose of choosing this particular subject area in the first place.<br />
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A perfect 800 is the score you want on the SAT2M2. Fully 20% of students who take the test get this score. A much lower score, once again, kind of defeats the purpose of electing this subject in the first place.<br />
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By choosing math as one of your two subject test areas, you’re declaring yourself to be a hotshot math student. You should therefore be able to score in the top 20%, which means you want an 800 on this test, or darn close to it.<br />
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The good news is that this isn't that hard to do, as long as you’re truly good at math, make the best possible use of your calculator, and work hard to prepare (i.e. take lots of practice tests, assiduously critique the results, do careful error analysis, and review regularly).<br />
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This is the number of right answers you need out of the 50 questions presented on the SAT2M2.<br />
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Notice that you don’t need a perfect score to get a perfect score. Not even close. On average, you only need an 88% (44/50) to score a perfect 800. No one can tell the difference between someone who gets 88% of the answers right and someone who gets 100% of the answers right; on the SAT2M2, both students receive the same scaled score: 800. So you’re shooting for 44. Anything above that is nice, but superfluous.<br />
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What about the other six questions?<br />
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You get a pass on these six. You can skip them all, get them all wrong, or skip some and get some wrong. It doesn't matter.<br />
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Here’s why:<br />
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According to the most recently released official SAT2M2 practice tests, on average, you actually only need a raw score (correct answers – .25 * incorrect answers) of 43 to get a perfect 800 scaled score. If you skip all six questions, your raw score is 44. If you answer all six incorrectly, your score is 42.5, which rounds up to 43. If you skip three and get three wrong, your raw score is 43.25, which rounds down to 43.<br />
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No matter what you do with the other six questions, as long as you get 44 right answers on this test you’ll likely receive a perfect 800 as your SAT Subject Test score.<br />
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You can probably do this. <br />
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Anyone who could score 700 on their own just sitting down and taking the test with no prep at all (requiring a raw score around 33: e.g. 35 right answers, five skips, ten wrong) can score 800 with strong preparation, plenty of practice, good calculator skills, and the right calculator programs.<br />
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And once again, if after a year of high school precalculus you can’t just sit down and get a 70% on this assessment (35/50), you might want to pick another subject test.<br />
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Among the many necessary qualities of truly great teachers, enthusiasm might be listed first. An instructor’s genuine, overflowing enthusiasm is that which excites students' souls and convinces them that the required academic work and sacrifice will be amply rewarded. The etymology of the word “enthusiasm” (en-theos: literally, "in God") points straight at the Divine, and no one could excite the soul with the beauty of mathematics like Gardner could.<br />
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A 1998 article by the master preserves for modern readers the flavor of Gardner’s contagious enthusiasm and gold-medal exposition that so characterized his column, presenting to <a href="http://www.celebrationofmind.org/resources">Gardner fans</a> and neophytes alike the pure noetic joy that accompanies deep dives into the realm of creative mathematics. <br />
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Reflecting the timelessness of the subject, the article reads as if it were penned yesterday, fresh and new. It’s not long, and is well worth a bit of your time:<br />
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<a href="https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/media/pdf/Aug2008_Martin_Gardner_Recreational_Mathematics.pdf">A Quarter-Century of Recreational Mathematics</a>.<br />
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SAT and ACT policies regulate the types and models of calculators allowed for use in solving math problems on standardized tests administered by each organization.<br />
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For a while, the SAT had a more or less unrestricted calculator policy whereas the ACT had a tightly controlled one, allowing only those user-installed programs comprising 25 or fewer lines of code. Aside from being unduly onerous, the old ACT policy was obviously unenforceable, and has recently been changed to essentially match the unrestricted SAT rule.<br />
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In a nutshell, here's what you need to know:<br />
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All features, apps, and user-installed programs are permitted for use, without restriction, on any model of the Ti-84 graphing calculator family (including the powerful Ti-84 Plus CE model) on the SAT, the SAT Math Subject Test (Levels 1, 2), and the ACT.<br />
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Below are links to current policies:<br />
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<a href="https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/taking-the-test/calculator-policy">SAT Calculator Policy (updated: 2023)</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.act.org/content/dam/act/unsecured/documents/ACT-calculator-policy.pdf">ACT Calculator Policy (updated: 2023)</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coloring-Mandalas-Meditation-original-illustrations/dp/1592336558/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1534018041&sr=1-4&keywords=coloring+mandalas+for+meditation">Coloring Mandalas for Meditation</a> was a hit with my daughter and her friends at Wesleyan who needed to periodically take a break from the stress of studying.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Adult-Coloring-Book-programmed-concentration/dp/0996135499/">Adult Coloring Book: Fractals</a> by Ben Trube not only offers beautiful fractal designs to color, but also provides a visceral experience with fractals and the math behind them.<br />
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