Mr. Hall's ACT Prep Assignments
Mr. Hall's
ACT Prep Assignments
(Subject to Change! Check with Mr. Hall!)
| No. | Date | Pages | Sect. | Problems |
| Tuesday-Friday 1/5/10-1/8/10 | ||||
| 1 | Have Parent Sign Syllabus | |||
| 2 | ACT Pre-test | |||
| Setting Reasonable and Reachable Goals | ||||
| Introduction and Overview of ACT | ||||
| Practical Tips for Improving ACT score | ||||
| Overview of Math ACT test | ||||
| Choosing which problems to work | ||||
| Eliminating Unreasonable Choices | ||||
| How to approach Word Problems | ||||
| The "speed" vs. "accuracy" dilemma | ||||
| Monday 1/11/10 | ||||
| Using Substitution to Solve Algebra Problems | ||||
| How to approach Word Problems | ||||
| How to do ACT homework problems | ||||
| Tuesday and Wednesday 1/12/10 and 1/13/10 | ||||
| 03-10 | Algebra Drill | 156-157 | ||
| 04-15 | Practice (Plugging In) | 159-161 | ||
| Thursday and Friday 1/14/10 and 1/15/10 | ||||
| Geometry Review | ||||
| Angles, Triangles, Quadrilaterials | ||||
| Circles | ||||
| Transformations | ||||
| Distance Formula | ||||
| Slope and Slope-Intercept | ||||
| Circle Formulas | ||||
| Ellipse Formula | ||||
| Triangle Area | ||||
| Right Triangles (Pythagorean Theorem) | ||||
| Trig Ratios | ||||
| Parallelograms | ||||
| Rectangles | ||||
| Squares | ||||
| Polygons (Angles) | ||||
| Volumes (Cubes, rectangular solids) | ||||
| First Steps when solving Geometry Problems | ||||
| Estimating Geometry solutions | ||||
| Solving Geometry Problems when time gets short | ||||
| Tuesday and Wednesday 1/19/10 and 1/20/10 | ||||
| Circle ratios (arc length, sector area, central angles) | ||||
| Similar Triangle Problems | ||||
| Special Right Triangle Problems (45-45-90 and 30-60-90) | ||||
| Basic Trigonometry | ||||
| Unusual Geometry Problems | ||||
| Thursday and Friday 1/11/10 and 1/22/10 | ||||
| 05-10 | Geometry Drill | 187-88 | ||
| 06-10 | Practice (Circles) | 191-192 | ||
| 07-19 | Practice (angles/shapes) | 193-196 | ||
| 08-05 | Practice (Trigonometry) | 197 | ||
| 09-06 | Practice (Geometry Special) | 198 | ||
| Monday and Tuesday 1/25/10 and 1/26/10 | ||||
| Arithmetic Mean (average) | ||||
| Percents | ||||
| Ratios | ||||
| Proportions | ||||
| 10-10 | Drill (Arithmetic problems) | 210 | ||
| 11-08 | Practice (Mean) | 213 | ||
| 12-06 | Practice (Ratios) | 215 | ||
| 13-09 | Practice (proportions) | 216-217 | ||
| Wednesday and Thursday 1/27/10 and 1/28/10 | ||||
| Direct Variation | ||||
| Inverse Variation | ||||
| Probability | ||||
| Ordering | ||||
| 14-04 | Practice (Variation) | 218 | 19-24 | |
| 15-06 | Practice (Probability) | 219 | 25-28 | |
| 16-05 | Practice (Ordering) | 220 | 29-33 | |
| Monday 2/1/10 | ||||
| Coordinate Geometry (on Calculators) | ||||
| 17-10 | Drill (Coordinate Geometry) | 231-232 | ||
| graphing lines and finding intersections | ||||
| 18-13 | Practice (Slope) | 235-237 | ||
| Tuesday & Wednesday 2/2/10 & 2/3/10 | ||||
| Distance Formula | ||||
| Midpoint Formula | ||||
| 19-5 | Practice (distance/midpoint) | 238 | ||
| Intersecting Lines | ||||
| Circles | ||||
| Ellipses | ||||
| 20-3 | Practice (figures) | 239 | ||
| 21-5 | Practice (intersecting lines) | 240 | ||
| 22-5 | Practice (circles/ellipses) | 241 | ||
| Thursday & Friday 2/4/10 & 2/5/10 | ||||
| Logarithms | ||||
| Change of Base formula | ||||
| Log properties | ||||
| 23-3 | Practice (logs) | 259 | ||
| Arithmetic Sequence | ||||
| Geometric Sequence | ||||
| 24-5 | Practice (sequences/series) | 260 | ||
| Monday 2/8/10 | ||||
| Matrices | ||||
| Radians | ||||
| Angles in Std Position | ||||
| Trig Identities | ||||
| Unit Circle | ||||
| Trig Equations | ||||
| Trig Graphs | ||||
| 3-D Graphs | ||||
| 25-3 | Practice (matrices) | 261 | ||
| 26-3 | Practice (radians/terminal sides) | 262 | ||
| 27-9 | Practice (identities/unit circle/graphs) | 263-65 | ||
| More Math Vocabulary | ||||
| 28-4 | Practice (vocabulary) | 274 | ||
| Solving Equations | ||||
| Solving Inequalities | ||||
| Translating English to Math | ||||
| Systems of equations | ||||
| Exponents | ||||
| Roots | ||||
| Parallel Lines | ||||
| Right Triangles | ||||
| Pythagorean Triples | ||||
| Function Notation | ||||
| Quadratic Equations | ||||
| FOIL | ||||
| Charts and Graphs | ||||
| 29-18 | Practice (fundamentals) | 293-295 | ||
| 30-6 | Practice (equations) | 296 | ||
| 31-8 | Practice (inequalities) | 297-98 | ||
| 32-18 | Practice (English to Math) | 298-301 | ||
| 33-5 | Practice (systems of equations) | 302 | ||
| 34-11 | Practice (exponents) | 303-04 | ||
| 35-6 | Practice (roots) | 305 | ||
| 36-3 | Practice (Parallel Lines) | 306 | ||
| 37-6 | Practice (right triangles) | 307 | ||
| 38-9 | Practice (functions) | 308 | ||
| 39-13 | Practice (quadratics) | 309-10 | ||
| 40-3 | Practice (charts and graphs) | 311 | ||
| 41-60 | MATH PRACTICE TEST | 313-331 | ||