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Leaf, Brian. McGraw-Hill Education Top 50 Skills for a Top Score: SAT Math, Second Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2016.

McGraw-Hill Education Top 50 Skills for a Top Score: SAT Math, Second Edition

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Published:  September 2016

eISBN: 9781259585685 | ISBN: 9781259585678
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • How to Use This Book
  • Easy, Medium, Hard, and Guessing
  • About Brian Leaf, MA
  • Acknowledgments
  • Pretest
  • Top 50 Skills
  • Skill 1 Use the Answers
  • Skill 2 Algebraic Manipulation . . . “What Is p in Terms of f?”
  • Skill 3 “Mean” Means Average
  • Skill 4 The Six-Minute Abs of Geometry: Angles
  • Skill 5 The Six-Minute Abs of Geometry: Parallel Lines
  • Skill 6 The Six-Minute Abs of Geometry: Triangles
  • Skill 7 The Final Six-Minute Abs of Geometry
  • Skill 8 Math Vocab
  • Skill 9 More Math Vocab
  • Skill 10 Systems of Equations
  • Skill 11 Green Circle, Black Diamond: Slaloming Slope I
  • Skill 12 Green Circle, Black Diamond: Slaloming Slope II
  • Skill 13 The Sports Page: Using Tables and Graphs
  • Skill 14 Function Questions on the SAT, Type I
  • Skill 15 Function Questions on the SAT, Type II
  • Skill 16 Make It Real
  • Skill 17 Perimeter, Area, Volume
  • Skill 18 Donuts
  • Skill 19 Baking Granola Bars . . . Ratios
  • Skill 20 More Granola Bars . . . Proportions and Cross-Multiplying
  • Skill 21 Use the Diagram
  • Skill 22 Art Class
  • Skill 23 The Six-Minute Abs of Geometry: Length of a Side I
  • Skill 24 The Six-Minute Abs of Geometry: Length of a Side II
  • Skill 25 The Six-Minute Abs of Geometry: Length of a Side III
  • Skill 26 “Is” Means Equals . . . Translation
  • Skill 27 Just Do It! . . . Springboard
  • Skill 28 Beyond Your Dear Aunt Sally: The Laws of Exponents I
  • Skill 29 Far Beyond Your Dear Aunt Sally: The Laws of Exponents II
  • Skill 30 Your Algebra Teacher Never Said “y = ax + b”
  • Skill 31 Arrangements
  • Skill 32 Long Word No-Problems
  • Skill 33 Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want . . . Probability
  • Skill 34 He's Making a List . . . Median, Mode, and Range
  • Skill 35 y = ax2 + bx + c
  • Skill 36 Circles
  • Skill 37 Hopscotch, Pigtails, and Remainders
  • Skill 38 Absolute Value
  • Skill 39 Sequences
  • Skill 40 Not So Complex Numbers
  • Skill 41 Don't Even Think About It! . . . Most Common SAT Math Careless Errors I
  • Skill 42 Don't Even Think About It! . . . Most Common SAT Math Careless Errors II
  • Skill 43 Misbehaving Numbers: Weird Number Behavior
  • Skill 44 Mathematical Transformations
  • Skill 45 SohCahToa!
  • Skill 46 Beyond SohCahToa
  • Skill 47 Directly and Inversely Proportional
  • Skill 48 Rational Expressions
  • Skill 49 How to Think Like a Math Genius I
  • Skill 50 How to Think Like a Math Genius II
  • Bonus Skill: Hello Harvard . . . How to Break 700
  • Easy, Medium, Hard, and Guessing Revisited
  • Now What?
  • Posttest I
  • Solutions
  • Glossary
  • Top 50 Skills Flash Cards