Saturday, December 15, 2007

FOIL Website

FOIL WEBSITE

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/teachingtools/worksheetgenerator/samples/foil.html

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

What do you think about this article? Are you confident that when you take the SAT that you can do better than the national average?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_on_re_us/sat_scores

Saturday, August 25, 2007

How to contact Mr. Sorocco?

jsorocco@gmail.com

Email and questions or ideas.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Practice solving two step equations using the distributive property.

Timed two step equations.

Type your name in the box toward the bottom of the screen and click ready.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Take a look at this site. Practice inequality problems.

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Grade 9 Specialized High School Practice examination with explanations.

Grade 9 exam and explaination.

Monday, July 30, 2007

Take the time to take this 10 question online Rice University SAT type test.

10 question test

comment on any part of the test that you found difficult or just tell us your score.

Saturday, July 28, 2007



What is the value of X. Explain how you determined your answer.
SAT Class. Please email for your test grade. (jsorocco@gmail.com)


Go to 4 tests and complete the SAT test. When you are finished add a comment to this post.

Friday, July 27, 2007

Check your SSAT weekend homework at this site.

A customer pays $1,100 in state taxes on a newly purchased car. What is the value of the car if state taxes are 8.9% of the value?

We setup this problem as .089 x = 1100. Where X = the original value of the car before taxes of 8.9%. We also change 8.9% by dividing by 100 giving us .089.

What is the value of the car before taxes?

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

When you finish the 44 question SAT online test, comment on any question that you found difficult or very easy.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Frequently missed questions on Friday's SSAT test.

An arched window is in the shape of a rectangle with a semicircle on top. If the base of the rectangle is 14 inches and the height of the rectangle is 20 inches, find the perimeter of the whole window. (use Pi = 3.140



At 12:30 P.M., what is the smaller angle between the minute hand and the hour hand?



A man standing at point A walks 1 mile south, 3 miles east, 5 miles north, and 7 miles west to reach point B. What is the length of line segment AB?

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Tomorrow we will be discussing consecutive integers in class after we take a test. Here is a worksheet with some problems and answers to the problems on the bottom of the page.

Consecutive Integer Problems

Online Consecutive Integer Problems Practice

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

How much money is saved by buying a car priced at $6000 with a single discount of 15% rather than buying the same car with a discount of 10% and 5%? (Give a brief explaination of your answer in your comment.)

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

If Sally can paint a house in 4 hours, and John can paint the same house in 6 hour, how long will it take for both of them to paint the house together?
This is an excellent site. Take the test, check your answers and click evaluate on the bottom of the screen; look for an icon that resembling a magnifying glass.

Share your questions with us in your comments.

Test Preparation Online Exam
Ratio and Proportion Quiz Level A

Ratio and Proportion Quiz Level B

Ratio and Proportion Quiz Level C

Try these proportion problems

Work on these review problems

Using Proportions to solve percentage problems.

Fact Sheets

Friday, July 13, 2007

What is the value of 3| x | - 5 | y | if x = -7 and y = -11?

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Test Answers SAT class

Thursday July 12 Test Answers

1 A 10) A
2 D 11) E
3 B 12) C
4 C 13) A
5 B 14) A
6 B 15) D
7 A 16) B
8 D 17) A
9 A 18) E

A

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Specialized High School Questions Form A

Miller's Factory has decided to run nonstop for three 14-hour shifts. The whistle to start the first shift is to blow At 9:00 a.m. At what time should the whistle blow to end the third shift?

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Question 1
One apple, one banana, and one papaya together cost a total of $1.05, and 12 apples and 12 bananas together cost a total of $9.36. How much does one papaya cost?


Question 2
2 7
X 3 M
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L 0 K
K L
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9 L K


In the correctly solved multiplication problem above, K, L, and M each represent distict digits. What is the value of M?

Friday, July 6, 2007

How can we use factor trees to find the Greatest Common Factor?

Don't forget to create your gmail account

Remember - Your last name is EMS, and your username is your first name with the letters ems at the end. Contact Mr. Sorocco with any questions. jsorocco@gmail.com

Thursday, July 5, 2007

If you double the area of a triangle, explain what happens to the side lengths and perimeter.

Use the comment to give your answer.
If you double the lengths of each of the sides of a triangle, what happens to the perimeter and the area?

When you comment on this question, use numbers to actually prove your answer.