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Your Personal Math Tutor is a self-help high school math book that covers algebra, geometry, trigonometry, precalculus and SAT preparation all in one book that can be used year after year. Although it does not present everything (that would be intimidating), it is explained so that the student (and parents) can understand the material because it is written in simple language as explained by an engineer.

Even though it is a high school book, Mr. B. covers fractions and decimals in Chapter 1 because many students have either forgotten how to work with them or they never did learn them in the first place! Many of his "arithmetrix" are included to show how to avoid using the calculator all the time and to make math fun.

Your Personal Math Tutor is a supplement to a textbook. The text is larger making it easier to read. Problems are explained just as if Mr. B. were sitting next to you. He asks the reader questions that show how to arrive at the solution. His intent is to teach how to think. If you know why you have to do something, you'll understand it better. For example, why is 7 to the zero power equal to 1? There are no cartoons but many graphs.

The ebook version is hyperlinked to go directly to a particular topic. The paperback version is well indexed for ease of locating the material. ... Read more

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SAT Math Test Preparation through innovative "Private Tutor" Method. A customized, fast, complete, effective and affordable method to increase SAT math scores that has been tested successfully on all levels of high school students. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Great Guide for SAT Math Preparation, STUFFED with exercises & examples!
I really like the way this book was designed and written to act like a "Private Tutor" for the students getting ready for the SAT Math test. Everything you need is indeed contained right in between the two covers of this book. No need to buy anything else.

You first take the diagnostic test (provided in the book) and figure out where you stand in terms of your strengths and your weaknesses.

Then you select a realistic SAT score target for yourself (through the charts provided).

And then you follow the step by step instructions to achieve that goal. It's simple as that! It's all laid out very clearly for all levels of students (has 3 different difficulty levels).

It also has like 1,000 examples and exercises! I haven't counted them one by one but this thick book with double-column pages is STUFFED with a lot of exercises and drawings and hints.

Probably one of the very best SAT prep books out there. I own quite a few of them but this one ranks way up on top. An excellent value for the money.

Excellent Book
It has step by step detailed instructions for SAT prep.As a tutor, I don't need to spend extra time to decide on what to teach.All I have to do is to follow the instructions given for each student.This book has all the necessary material (math subjects, strategies, examples and exercises).No need to copy pages and pages of study and homework material.I recommend it to everyone. ... Read more

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Statistics, probability, alternative answer formats, and instruction for the Casio fx-260, the official calculator of the GED Test. ... Read more

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The best GED math text on the market right now
I have been teaching the GED for 20+ years, and I insist that each of my students own this book.First of all, it breaks down the basic math skill areas into clear steps with helpful examples.Then it gives the student lots of opportunities to review what they have learned and assess their growth with mini-tests after every 3 lessons and unit reviews.Also you can practice for the GED by taking three full length practice tests.The answers and explanations in the back can help a student learn from their mistakes.Best of all, the level of difficulty matches the actual GED pretty closely (not true of other publishers) so if the student can do well in this book, you can expect that they will do well on the GED as well.

My three complaints about this book are:
the chapter on percents is confusing.There is a much better way to teach percents that asking students to memorize and manipulate a diagram.

There needs to be more on charts and graphs, which are getting bigger and bigger on the GED.Also I wish there were more on ratios & proportions.I always find that I have to supplement the book when I get to this lesson because SV gives us very few word problems, and they are all too easy.

There should be a bigger section on multi-step problems, also another huge area on the GED.SV is great for breaking down the test into skills, but sometimes questions ask you to work more than one skill at a time.

SV Math can use improvements, and I would supplement it with some of the newer stuff from Contemporary(another publisher of GED books) but as a basic GED math text, it really is the best book out there.I highly recommend it.

a very outstanding book
the book is very helpful in the areas that i need for my class that i attend on saturdays. my teacher recomend that we get this book and the topic in the book are very easy to understand. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Community College Week, published by Cox, Matthews & Associates on March 17, 2003. The length of the article is 961 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Automated online math tutors.
Author: Wade Ellis
Publication: Community College Week (Newspaper)
Date: March 17, 2003
Publisher: Cox, Matthews & Associates
Volume: 15Issue: 16Page: S12(1)

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Designed specifically as a study aid for students who desire extra practice and review in all areas of math found on the SAT I exam. Full-length reviews and 300 problems with step-by-step solutions cover every type of math question found on the SAT I: regular math, quantitative comparisons, and student-produced response questions. ... Read more

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Not that good
I bought this book hoping to get help preparing for the SAT.This book is just a list of 100 questions from general math and comparative math sections with complete answers.I took a practice SAT that was the actual May 1988 SAT and there were many things that I could not find in this book. ... Read more

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The Maths Tutor is a wry and incisive new play exposing how our desire for normal family life and our fears about adults, young people and sex can sometimes outride the truth. Claire McIntyre is a winner of the Evening Standard and Samuel Beckett awards, and author of My Heart's a Suitcase and Low Level Panic.

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HardcoverPearsonEdition Description: Older EditionEdition Number: 8September 2000 ... Read more

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SMART KIDS - Educational Video Resources: 2 VHS Video - 1 WorkBook Set in a ClamShell Case. ... Read more

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Teaches percentages. ... Read more