I am looking for the most successful methods currently being used to improve high school mathematics scores?
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I teach in New York which is a test-happy state.  I am sorry to say that what works best is doing lots and lots of practice tests.  It's a big waste of time but it does improve scores.
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This site is a great place to practice basic math skills... when you get to the site... \n\n1. click on the grade level (at the top) that you wish to practice\n2. click on the topic that you wish to practice\n3.  click on the subtopic that you wish to practice\n4.  click on the practice box\n5.  click on "start" to begin practice\n6.  continue to click on "start" until you finish practicing that lesson\n\nAlso, this site has interactive games with math and arithmetic rules.  Lots of fun with math!\n\n http://www.aaamath.com/
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I have tried the following I always get the highest grade in all classes, even though all the exams prob. are from outside the text book.\n\nFirst of all;  pay attention to the class, and what the prof. concentrate on. \nSecondly; do not try to solve many problems, instead try to understand the way to solve them.\n\nI always read the book carefully and spend most of the time to understand the theory and how they came up with them, after that I try to solve the example only or with one or two more prob. if I have enough time.\n\nTry that and you will see good results.\nGood Luck
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I'm going to assume that you just phrased the question wrong and that you are really looking for a legal way to help increase your score. I included a link under sources with instructions to the test. At the bottom is a section on test preparation including guidebooks. I suggest looking there.
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http://www.math.com\nThis site provides a Variety of resources related to math education.  The site is broken into sections: Cool Tools, which provides online tools such as calculators, graphers, equation solvers, and converters.  There are also sections for test preparations, study tips, as well as a section that is aimed at interesting students in the study of math called “Wonders of Math.”  There is also online math tutoring available for both students and teachers.
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I am a former Mathematics Educator.  A number of my former students lowest scores were in mathematics.  I suggest that you "borrow" a copy of your Algebra 1 text from the high school that you attended and take the chapter test at the end of each chapter.  This will allow you to assess where you need to begin work in that subject.  It would behoove you to then "trade" for a geometry text and do the same thing.  The same process would help in most other subject matter that you are weak in.  This ALWAYS improved the scores a great deal for my former students.  Have a GREAT WEEKEND!!\nEds
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pbs has courses on all the time. teaches math reading all of it. Good luck and its nice to see you wanting to better yourself
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Homework should be given as practice, but not in excess, and only after guided practice in the classroom with teacher feedback. Studies show homework before high school really has no effect on increased student achievement. But I believe it is good practice in lower grades in moderation.\n\nI team taught with a special ed. teacher in 3rd grade math. Both the regular ed. and special ed. kids achieved. It was a great experience. It does require planning on both teachers' parts. Share the load and don't let it be a time when one person "gets a break."\n\nGrading should be based on a variety of methods both formative and summative. Things like quizzes, teacher observation, unit tests and performance-based tasks should be used.\n\nTeachers usually don't have much choice on how report cards are done. They are a system-generated tool based on grades that are input by the teacher and averaged. Always write a positive comment if you have to write a negative comment. All kids are good at something.\n\nClassroom management is best when based on your individual style and class. Some teachers and students are able to handle "productive noise" (best for learning) and others require quiet. Read Harry Wong's book The First Days of School for great ideas for setting up routines and procedures that will help kids feel safe and responsible in their classroom environment.
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Math exercises for form 1 are available in a book-store. Usually there a couple of websites that offer quizzes online. These can be found in the publishers' website. Maybe you would want to try high-school math at the following links? Any doubts pls fwd to me. If u know how, hehe.
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Well, I would recommend talking to your teacher. He or she may let you re-do assignments or do extra projects for more credit.\n\nAlso, ask them what areas you need to improve on. Then work on those things - get extra help with them, look them up on the internet, do more homework that uses them.\n\nYour teacher really is the place to start. Also, do you have any friends who are doing well in the class? You can ask them to help you too.\n\nAnd MOST IMPORTANTLY, always do your homework, and make sure that you understand all of the problems. Don't skip the problems that are hard, figure them out or ask for help. It will all pay off on your next test! Good luck!
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It is possible to get a high SAT score in math by studying. But a D in Algebra II- what's going on? Not doing the homework?\nWhen I was in junior high, I deliberatly flubbed the placement for high school, because I didn't want to take Calculus as a junior.\nI was kicking butt in Algebra 1 as a freshman and my friend told the teacher. I got moved into Algebra II as a freshman.\nI ended up with a D as well.\nI ended up dropping out of high school due to a crazy situation at home. Later, while working at a dry cleaners, I had lots of free time, and I was bummed that I didn't graduate. I got the Baron's SAT guide and worked the problems over and over for months.\nEnded up with a 650 math. Graduated from UCSB, but I went to state college first and transferred later. \nPursue your dreams and never give up!\nOh yeah it helps if you can write a good essay, maybe you can explain your math grades.
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1.Read the text, slowly and clear ur concepts in between\n2.Read again briskly, underlining the important points.\n3.Make notes of any extras that u know, or u find hard to remember.\n4.Study's shud have a regular regime, give proper 2 hrs if u're not in high-school, otherwise make it 4 hrs., its important.\nFruits are gained either by regular studies/by mugging up to gain marks, i dont like the latter, bcos its not long time, u have to make a start, sticking on to the method above, gradually u'd increase ur speed of learning, and u'll do more in less time.Good Luck!!!!!\nYa n i forgot the maths-well u do sums, solve problems...start from 2 per day to 100 per day, first clear main concepts, n have a command over elementary mathematics...go further n solve problems, its laborious, but fruitful, u wont need to clear concepts again n again if ur basic is strong.Make it strong now or  never, u shud take anyquestion in the book, and start, try teaching maths to juniors, it really helps.
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The best place to look is your state's curriculum/content standards.  Each state chooses their own curriculum requirements for each grade level.  \n\nGo to your state's Dept. of Education and find the link. \n\nOtherwise, there are national councils that put out suggestions as well.  NCTM is the math council -- they have created a list that many states use as a guideline
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I taught language arts to automotive students and was very successful in raising their reading scores. Vocational students are usually "hands-on" learners. You will lose them if all you do is lecture or ask them to "read the chapter and answer the questions".  Our students were turned-off by texbooks, so I utilized handouts instead. I found that if you make the material practical and show them how they can incorporate it into their lives, the more receptive they will be. You might want to demonstrate the procedure and then they do it on their own. If it is a written assignment, do it along with them using an overhead projector. This will require them to focus their attention and keep up. I also used small group discussions and long-term projects they completed during class time. All of these worked well for me. Good luck!
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There are lots of ways to do this. Most of them assume a distribution to the data, that is, sort of a histogram of the scores. So for example, a bell curve (also called a normal distribution or a Gaussian distribution) is a very common curve to grade on. It is not that fair in some ways, because it is symmetric, and students on the bottom of the curve might feel short changed. If you have a group of very good students, or a group of very bad students, things can be a bit distorted.  \n\n\nSome of the methods are pretty technical. But there might be some easy ways to do this. \n\nThe first method sort of automates the procedure described by the previous answers. It has the advantage that if anyone asks, you can tell them you really DID use a normal distribution curve and here are the parameters involved etc. I do not know if this is an important consideration in this situation for you, however, or not. \n \nIn comment 2., a number of other methods are mentioned, particularly in the references, but I suspect these might be too technical for your needs. \n\n1. Try just sorting the students into groups and then assigning grades to each group. Sort the student's grades, smallest to largest. Then suppose you want to give out grades A, B, C, D, and F. This method depends on knowing where the middle is, and what standard deviation is. \n\nFor the middle: try taking an arithmetic average. Just add up all the scores Xj, and divide by the number of students N. Something like : \n\nM=Sum Xj/N\n\nFor the standard deviation: This is a bit trickier, but not too bad with a computer or calculator. Take each score, subtract off the arithmetic average from the score, square the resulting number and add all these numbers, dividing by N-1. Something like:\n\nSD=Sum [(Xj-M)^2]/(N-1)\n\n\nIf you can't do this yourself easily, there are calculators to do this on the internet. For example, look at web sites in references 1 and 2.\n\nThen go to the third web site in the references (ref 3) and type in your values for mean and SD. \n\n\nSuppose that you find mean =60 and SD=10. Then type it in the spaces in the web calculator. \n\nEntering different values in the calculator will tell you what proportion of students are in a category. So suppose you decide that all students with grades less than 40 will get an F. Type in 40 on the calculator, and then you find that this corresponds to a shaded area on the curve of 0.022750. This means that 2.275% of the students will be assigned an F. \n\nTake the bottom 2.3% of the students and give them an F.\n\nThen suppose you decide that scores from 40 to 50 should get a D. Type in the spaces in the calculator, that you want the area between 40 and 50. The calculator tells you that this area is 0.135905. \n\nTake the next 13.6 % and give them a D. \n\nSuppose you decide that the scores between 50 and 60 will get a C. Type into the website calculator, you want the area between 50 and 60. The calculator tells you the area is 0.341345. \n\nTake the next 34% and give them a C. \n\nSuppose you decide that the students with scores between 60 (the average remember) and say 70 should get a B. Into the web calculator, look for the area beween 60 and 70. The calculator tells you the area is .341345 again. \n\nSo take the next 34% and give them a B. \n\nSuppose you decide that all students with a score above 70 should get an A. In the web calculator, look for the area above 70 and you find that the area is 0.158655. \n\n\nThe top 16% get an A. \n\nNotice this is still sort of arbitrary, since you are deciding what is an F, a D, a C, a B and an A. But you are using the normal distribution to help you a bit. \n\nYou can play around with this quite a bit. You can make it so the same number of students who get an F get an A, and same number who get a D get a B. However, even though it is done on a "curve", it is all still quite arbitrary. You really do not need the web calculator except to help you get a feel for
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online is not the way to go. it is hard to help someone with a math problem when they don't actually understand the problem. meaning they can not see the problem. it is sometimes too hard to explain without real communication, and without the tutor being able to see what the 6th grader is doing wrong.\nmy suggestion is go to a local college or high school and post wanted tutor signs. it is up to you to pay them or not. many students who are going into teaching would be willing to tutor for free so they can put it on a college application or resume.\ngood luck!
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Get one of those fat practice books and do a lot of practice --- particularly in math.\n\nI did this for math and walked away with almost a perfect score.