SAT Math Overview

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What is the New SAT Math? What does it cover?

It’s About the Real World

Instead of testing every math topic, the questions ask you to use the most commonly used math formulas. The Questions for on math that you’ll need in college classes, future jobs, and personal life.

Quick Facts

  1. Most math questions will be multiple choice, but you will need to write in the answer for some.
  2. The Math Test has two sections: with a calculator and without a calculator.
  3. Some parts of the test will provide a scenario and the ask multiple questions relating to the scenario.

Focus

The Math Test will focus on the three areas of math that play the biggest role in a wide range of college majors and careers:

  1. Heart of Algebra-The SAT will focus strongly on algebra and key concepts that are essential for college. Heart of Algebra will assess students’ ability to analyze, solve, and create linear equations and inequalities. Students will be expected to analyze and solve equations and systems of equations using multiple techniques
  2. Problem Solving and Data Analysis-  Problems in this section require quantitative reasoning about ratios, rates, and proportional relationships. Students will be expected to analyze a set of data they are given and identify the center, l patterns, and any deviations from the pattern in one or two different data sets. This includes recognizing the effects of outliers on the measures of center of a data set.
  3. Passport to Advanced Math-This section focuses on problems that are essential to know how to solve before studying advanced math. Included is understanding of the structure of expressions and the ability to analyze, manipulate, and rewrite these expressions.
  4. Additional Math Topics- This section will include geometric and trigonometric concepts.

Conceptual Understanding

In the New SAT math students will demonstrate their ability to grasp math concepts, operations, and relations.

Applications

As the new SAT shifts its focus to real world applications, the problems will ask you to analyze a situation, determine the essential elements required to solve the problem, represent the problem mathematically, and carry out a solution.